Police say the arrest came after a tip-off was given by undercover officers.
Provincial Narcotics Police led by Maj Rittichai Chumchuy arrested 35-year-old Suthat Saenee at 4:30pm yesterday at his rented room in Soi Panieng off Yaowarat Rd and in addition to the drugs, police also seized digital scales and drug taking paraphernalia.
Maj Rittichai said that the arrest of Suthat came after police received a tip-off that Suthat was selling drug to people in the area of the rented home.
“Undercover officers have been monitored Suthat’s movements since the beginning of May. Today undercover officers told us that Suthat had a stash of drugs in his room ready to be sold. We searched his room and found the drugs along with other drug related items,” Maj Rittichai said.
Suthat admitted to police that all items found in the room were his, he also said that he brought the drugs from a dealer in Trang who he named only as Ko.
In his statement he said that he had bought drugs from Ko on three or four occasions, the most recent being May 10 when he returned to Trang to pick up the drugs himself. He smuggled the drugs onto the island by bus.
He also said that he would pay Ko B100,000 for 2,000 ya bah pills, B1,500 for one gram of ya ice and B1,500 for 50grams of weed and that payment was made by bank transfer to a Kassikorn Bank account after the drugs had been sold.
Suthat was taken to Phuket City Police Station where he is to be charged with possession of Category 1 drugs with intent to sell and possession of a Category 5 drug.