RELEASED: 19 Jun 2018 at 17:55
UPGRADED: 19 Jun 2018 at 18:27
PATTAYA: A 49-year-old Australian male was apprehended in Muak Lek district of Saraburi province about 3am on Tuesday for supposedly promoting sex cruises with woman of the streets on a Facebook page.
On Dec 6 in 2015 Steven Allan Carpenter published an ad on his Facebook account promoting his service, AUSTHAI Tours, which he supposedly referred to as a service organizing a six-hour chartered boat journey with woman of the streets on board at an expense of in between 38,000 and 50,000 baht, the source stated.
A male pretending to be a prospective client gotten in touch with Mr Carpenter and asked for the service.
The suspect agreed and asked the cops spy to share the cost as a deposit, which he did by moving the cash into a checking account offered by the suspect, the source stated.
The deal record was utilized as proof to get an arrest warrant from the Pattaya Provincial Court on June 16 on charges of obtaining for prostitution and breaching the computer system criminal activity law by releasing adult product online, the source stated.
The suspect had actually left from Pattaya and entered into concealing in Saraburi. He was gone back to Pattaya to deal with charges.
On arrival in Pattaya for more questioning, Mr Carpenter dealt with added fees of breaching the law controling kinds of work immigrants are allowed to do in Thailand, and overstaying his visa, the source stated.
The cops group was headed by Pol Lt Col Dulayaphat Techaphonchayasin.
An embed from Steve Carpenter’s Facebook page. The supposed post offering sex cruises was not noticeable on Tuesday night.
