Police Arrest Drug Dealing Monk

January 22, 2014

22 January 2014 :: 13:01:29 น. [ 104 views ]

SATTAHIP – January 22, 2014 [PDN]; at 8.00 a.m. Mr. Phawat Lertmookda (Sattahip sheriff, Chonburi province) together with Mr. Chawat Thepthap (Deputy District Chief of Stability) and forces of special operation officers of the Centre for Power to Overcome Narcotics made a plan to purchase drugs with marked banknotes of a monk called Mongkhol Piyasilo or Mr. Mongkhol or Uan Saengthong, aged 32, who was a monk of one well known in Tambon Na Jomtien, Amphur Sattahip, Chonburi province with the allegation of selling and having type 1 narcotic in his possession. The police arrested him together with exhibits of 3 amphetamines pills and the marked banknotes which totaled 750 THB.

Mr. Phawat Lertmookda (Sattahip sheriff) revealed that he had received complaints from local people about the inappropriate behavior of a monk that he was taking and selling drugs to lots of teenagers who were going in and out from his parsonage all day and all night. The officers watched until an alien worker came out from the monk’s parsonage and tested his urine which they found had traces of drugs in it. This alien worker confessed that he bought amphetamines from monk Mongkhol at 250 THB per pill therefore the officers performed a sting operation to buy 3 amphetamines pills from monk Mongkhol at a price of 750 THB.

Upon questioning monk Mongkhol he confessed that before he ordained as a monk he had been arrested 4 times for selling drugs, but he was not afraid of law because he was inveterately addicted to amphetamine and he had to consume at least 10 amphetamines pills per day. He also said he struggled to get money from selling drugs so he decided to be ordained to become a monk and stayed the house of priest for 4 years. He had used the monk’s dress to sell amphetamines to alien workers, teenagers and monks of other temples.His younger brother named Jeab brought the amphetamines for him to sell and recently he had received 200 pills which he split into small bags. He also sold drugs to another drug dealing monk in a temple in Amphur Sattahip which the police are now following up to arrest him. For Mr. Jeab (the younger brother of monk Mongkhol) he had already fled the area after he knew that his elder brother was arrested. The police will rush to arrest him and he will also be prosecuted further according to the Thai law.

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