Sa Kaew immigration police arrested Wachiro Denprasert, 40, after they found 0.82 grams of crystal meth in a plastic bag hidden among pages of the then searched him and found 1.58 grams of the drug in a plastic bag hidden in his underpants.&nbsp; 
Police interrogated the man, determining that he is a manager of a well-known Japanese restaurant in Bangkok with six branches. He was planning leave the Kingdom to gamble at a casino in Poi Pet across the border from Sa Kaew. 
Police said his urine tested positive for drugs.

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A Thai man, who manages a Japanese restaurant in Bangkok, was arrested in Sa Kaew on Monday after immigration police detected crystal meth, or “ice”, secreted in his passport.

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