Two arrested for selling ya bah

PHUKET: Weerasak Tantiratthanapitak, 20, and Sunipol Boonnak, 24, were arrested in Phuket Town yesterday following a sting operation when they attempted to sell methamphetamine (ya bah) to plainclothes police. According to Pol Maj Amnuoy Kraiwootthinan of the Phuket Town Police Station, the police then went to the suspects’ apartment on Surin Rd. In the apartment they found 110 tablets of ya bah, drug paraphernalia and 1,900 baht in cash. The two traffickers later confessed that they had been selling ya bah in Phuket for a long time, but had always managed to avoid arrest. The pair were charged with possession and trafficking in illicit drugs.

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