Tourist Police Bureau deputy commissioner Surachate Hakparn, centre, talks with another officer following a raid early Saturday on Narz pub on Sukhumvit Soi 23. Forty-five out of 80 pub-goers tested positive for drugs. (Photo from Tourist Police Facebook page @1155TPB)Forty-five pub-goers tested positive for drugs following a police raid on a popular nightspot off Sukhumvit Road in Watthana district of Bangkok early Saturday. Officers raided Narz pub on Sukhumvit Soi 23 at around 1am following complains by local residents that it often stayed open beyond legal operting hours. All were asked to undergo urine tests and 45 of them -- 29 men and 16 women -- tested positive for drug use, said Pol Maj Gen Surachate Hakparn, deputy commissioner of the Tourist Police Bureau.

Source: Bangkok Post May 05, 2018 07:07 UTC