Provincial Narcotics Police led by Maj Rittichai Chumchuy arrested 20-year-old Kirkchai Boorit at a rented room on Surin-Montri Rd at 8:30pm on Thursday in a sting operation carried out after police learned that he was working for drug network of a dealer named Paiboon Osod.
Police seized from Kirkchai 2,098 ya bah pills, three unregistered guns including and Smith and Wesson and Thai paradit, 290 bullets, 1.65 grams of ya ice and drug taking paraphernalia.
Maj Rittichai said that undercover officers discovered that Kirkchai had rented a room in Phuket Town which he used as a base to sell drugs to people in the area.
After monitoring his activity, on Thursday an undercover officer set up on a deal to buy drugs from Kirkchai.
While Kirkchai was waiting to sell his drugs to his potential client in front of his rented room, police approached and searched him.
“We found nothing on him, only a key to his room. However, Kirkchai admitted that he used drugs but said that he was not selling them,” said Maj Rittichai.
“We then proceed to search his room and found all the seized items,” he added.
Kirkchai admitted that he received the drugs from a dealer named Paiboon who sent them to him via a local transport company. He said that he last bought 50g of ya ice and 8,000 ya bah pills from Paiboon, and that he had been arrested on drug related charges four-six times previously.
He also told police that he bought the guns via a Facebook page and that he would sell them on to any client who wanted one. He had previously sold two weapons to local drug dealers.
Kirkchai was taken to Phuket City Police Station where he was charged with possession of Category 1 drugs with intent to sell and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.