Bangkok pub raided for operating after hours
A pub in a Bangkok hotel was raided by police early Wednesday for operating after closing hours, despite an earlier order to suspend business.
Eighty policemen from the Crime Suppression Division and the Phayathai police staton found about 250 foreigners and Thais still drinking and dancing inside the pub at 5.40am. The pub,which has no sign, is located inside the Thongpoon Hotel on Rama VI road in Parthumwan district.
Pol Col Thongchai Yuket, commander of the CSD Subdivision 1, said officers staked out the pub after they learned that it had been catering to drinkers after the 2am closing time.
Thongchai said the pub is known among pubgoers as “Swing” and customers arrived at 4am.
He said 28 customers tested positive for drug use.
Pathumwan police commander Pol Col Popthorn Jitmum said the manager of the pub, Panupong Tanongkaew, was arrested.
An official from Pathumwan district office said the establishment was ordered on January 4 to suspend business until further notice.
