Police bring out for the
press the 3 foreigners accused of pornography, along with tools of the trade
allegedly confiscated from their house.
Theerarak Suthathiwong
Three foreigners were arrested when police raided an East Pattaya home
being used as a studio for a pornographic webcam operation.
Dutchman Ethan Marcel Christopher Janzwarts, 46; Slovenian Luka Zagar, 32;
and Austrian Melanie Pirich, 27, were taken into custody along with Sakdadet
Khumthuan, 34, caretaker of the Soi Pornpraphanimit 27 estate. Three
additional Thai transvestites and two Thai women were captured in another of
the five houses on the property.
At the time of the 5:30 a.m. raid, Laka was caught filming a pornographic
video and Pirich, dressed in lingerie, was performing an online sex show.
Police also recovered 3g. of crystal methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
Three video cameras, four laptop computers, sex toys and pornographic video
files were also seized.
Region 2 Police commander Maj. Gen. Khatcha Thatsart said authorities were
tipped off to the Internet porn operation by another foreigner.
Police said Janzwarts confessed to running the webcam operation for two
years and claimed to be ignorant of the kingdom’s pornography laws, even
though the webcam website itself long ago had been blocked from being viewed
inside Thailand.
