Nattanant Rattanaweerakan
sobbed when Pol. Col. Suwan Chiewnawinthawat, superintendent of Pattaya
station brought her out for the press.
Boonlua Chatree
A former Chonburi elected official was arrested for allegedly
operating a large methamphetamine-dealing network on behalf of a
Chonburi Prison inmate.
Nattanant Rattanaweerakan, the former deputy chief of the Nong Hiang
Sub-district in Phanat Nikhom, was captured with 200 ya ba tablets April
8 in a sting operation by Pattaya police in Takientia. A search of her
Bowin, Sriracha apartment found another 14,000 pills.
Police said the 44-year-old Nattanant confessed to working for an inmate
identified only as “Mekh.” She said she began work for the imprisoned
drug dealer after voters rejected her in the latest Chonburi local
elections. She said she needed the money to pay off campaign expenses
and support her sick mother.
