Two arrested for human trafficking
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Police arrested a karaoke bar owner and a Laotian woman in Sakhon Nakhon’s Akat Amnuay district for human trafficking and also rescued 12 Laotian female workers, of whom eight were under the age of 18.
Anti-Human Trafficking Division chief Pol Maj-General Chawalit Sawaengpeuch announced yesterday that Boonsa Srisamai, 37, and Khamphan Sisamai, 33, were also charged with operating a bar without a licence, procuring prostitutes, illegally hiring immigrants, recruiting minors to work in a bar and exploiting them.
The rescued teenagers have been sent to a home for juveniles, while the other four women, aged between 19 and 25, have been charged with illegal entry to Thailand.
In related news, a pick-up truck transporting 18 foreign workers drove through a checkpoint in Chumphon’s Muang early yesterday morning, resulting in a 10-kilometre car chase and the arrest of the driver and the workers.
Police manning the Tambon Khun Krathing checkpoint signalled a suspicious-looking truck to stop, but the driver revved up and drove straight through. Police gave chase and stopped the truck before arresting driver Somsak Imchan, 40, and finding 15 men and three women hiding under canvas at the back.
Somsak confessed that he picked up the workers at the Thai-Myanmar border in Ranong to deliver them to businesses in Songkhla’s Hat Yai province in exchange for Bt8,000 per person.
