Officials gather around some of the illegal contraband confiscated
during the pre-New Year sweep.
Boonlua Chatree
The Pattaya Remand Prison staged another of its
facility-wide sweeps, with more than 200 officers and volunteers tossing
cells and common areas for weapons and drugs.
Officials did not disclose how much contraband was
discovered, saying only a “large number” of items fashioned as weapons
and antibiotic drugs altered to be hallucinogens were found during the
early morning raid Dec. 30.
Warden Somchai Wimansak said he requested help from
the Sattahip Naval Base and other agencies to sweep out dangerous items
and other prohibited belongings, such as mobile phones, before the New
Year’s holiday.
The Pattaya Remand Prison was built to hold 1,100
inmates but currently has a population 2,715. There are 25 non-Thai
inmates incarcerated there.
