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More tourists drugged
Ms. Nitaya 30, a receptionist at the Cherry Hotel, reported
to police that a Japanese tourist, Kurihara Yosiyaki (sic), 48, and a Thai man,
Sakda Prakorbkaew, 41, who had checked into the hotel together, had been drugged
and were not able to come to the police station to file a report themselves.
Police followed her to the scene of the drugging and found both men unconscious.
Neither could be awakened and were immediately sent to Pattaya Memorial Hospital
for treatment. Police fear they had been given fatal quantities of drugs.
Police received testimony from Ms. Marisa Kawakuki, 22, who was the Thai
victim’s younger sister, staying in a different room. She told police that
before the two men were drugged (on the 20th of December), Kurihara knocked on
her door and said he had no Thai money and asked to borrow one thousand baht as
he only had Japanese Yen. He needed this money to open a new room as the two men
had brought two Thai women with them for the usual purposes. She said she saw
these two women sitting in the room. She thought nothing suspicious was afoot so
she returned to her room.
The next morning she called her brother’s room to invite them down for
breakfast. When no-one answered the phone, she went to their room and found the
two men unconscious. Supposing they had been drugged, she searched the room and
found it had been ransacked and everything of value was missing.
Police are now searching for the two unidentified Thai women who were with the
men before they were drugged.
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