DJ ARRESTED FOR SELLING DRUGS TO TEENAGERS

Police raid makeshift entertainment places, recommend they be shut
down

On the night of August 22, over 100 Chiang Mai policemen patrolled a
new hangout for youngsters in Tambon Chang Puek, nearby Wat Pa Paeng
temple, and Im-boon Housing Estate, Muang District, Chiang Mai.

Over 30 entertainment places, pubs, bars, food and drink shops, and
karaoke bars have opened in the area, and over a hundred youngsters
gather there nightly to drink and allegedly buy drugs.

While the police were searching the shops, Preechapong Yawichai, a
21-year-old DJ at Jiamjiam Pub, tried to flee the scene on his
motorcycle, but doughty police managed to catch him, and found 10 ya
ba pills and a bottle of K drug inside his motorcycle seat.

Police said that they had followed Preechapong for a long time, as it
had been reported that he was a ya ba agent for teenagers in the area.
He allegedly normally had 2 girls with him who sold the drugs to teenagers.

Police also found 22 youngsters who were under 20 years old in the
entertainment area, and these youngsters were fined 50 baht each.

Police are asking Chiang Mai Governor Suwat Tantipat to close these
pubs, and police are confident that the governor would do so.