Just prior to midnight on Wednesday police manning a checkpoint on Soi Kow Noi in the East of Pattaya arrested a man on a motorbike and discovered he was carrying 0.4 grams of the prohibited drug yah ice.
Taken to Banglamung police station the 23-year-old said he worked as a motorbike taxi driver. He claimed that as he was coming along Soi Kow Noi he saw the police checkpoint and, since he wasn’t wearing a helmet, thought he would be pulled over, so he decided to turn around and go in the opposite direction. After police gave chase and apprehended him they discovered the illegal Class 1 drug.
The arrested man claimed the yah ice did not belong to him and must have appeared by some kind of black magic. The police are apparently not inclined to believe his story and so he will be given time to prepare a more fanciful account which he can try out on a judge.