Motorcycles parked outside tumbled as party-goers ran to escape the cordon of police and Narcotics Control Board officials. A brief search of the pub turned up ecstasy pills, ketamine drug and e-cigarette devices scattered over the floor, presumably ditched by pub-goers during the raid. Pol Col Alongkorn Sirisongkram, commander of the Kokkram police station, said pub manager Sumet Ramkaew, 28, was arrested along with the 120 pub-goers, 70 men and 50 women. Alongkorn said the pub had been open for two months and investigations had pointed to it being a drug den. The pub manager was charged with operating a pub and selling alcohol without licence, opening beyond closing hour, and tolerating drug abuse in the venue, Alongkorn said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok May 29, 2019 03:56 UTC