Sriracha Police and drug enforcement officers conducted a raid on a chicken shop near Sriracha Tiger Zoo. The shop called Coconut Chicken was thought to be a front for a more nefarious business the trade and distribution of narcotics. The officers gathered near the chicken shop and at the appointed moment plucked up the courage to move in.
They searched the shop and found lots of grilled chicken. The owner of the shop Khun Chanon looked nervous as if someone had ruffled his feathers. A further search and the officers were in cluck sorry luck. 1,200 Yaa Baa (Methamphetamine) tablets were discovered in a box in a closet. and a smaller cache of 49 tablets in other drawers behind the shop.
It looks like the chickens had come home to roost for Khun Chanon and under questioning confessed to possession of a large quantity of class 1 narcotics for the purpose of distribution.
He said that he bought the drugs from the Thai Cambodia border area in Sakeaw Province where he would purchase 1,000 - 2,000 tablets for resale to drugs dealers in Sriracha who sold them on to local workers and Thai youths.
He has been running this "extra" business for about 3 years and made around 50,000 Baht per month. Also seized in the raid were a 38mm pistol, an 11mm automatic weapon and a quantity of ammunition.
It looks like Khun Chanon, the chicken shop owner may be spending a long period of time cooped up courtesy of The Department of Corrections. And there are no bones about it - getting a large amount of deadly drugs off the street is certainly a feather in the cap for the Sriracha officers.
