Rats help police expose drug dealer

Yesterday, police arrested a 33-year-old man for illegally possessing over 1,000 methamphetamine pills and dealing drugs to students in the Thung Khru district. Curiously enough, rats played a major role in bringing about the arrest.

Police had planned to catch Prayoonsak Kaewphongphan, a known drug dealer, for a long time. They received a tip-off that he had set up a dealership at a house on Pracha Uthit 33 Road. On Jan. 14, police posed as potential clients and placed an order with Prayoonsak by phone.

At Prayoonsak’s residence, the officers charged him after he handed over the pack of 10 meth pills that they had requested. Police searched the house but did not succeed in discovering the larger cache of drugs they had expected to find.

Just when police were about to leave and take Prayoonsak to the station, an old ceiling board broke and fell down to the floor right before their feet. Along with the ceiling board came a box of 1,190 meth pills and some crystal meth tablets. The ill-planned concealment was reportedly exposed by a tremor triggered during a footrace between two rats.

Dailynews reported that the ceiling’s collapse made Prayoonsak turn pale. Previous to that blunder, he had dreamt that with the small amount of pills, he would have merely obtained a minimum sentence. But that was no longer the case and, as Dailynews insisted in its headline, karma does exist.



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