Bangkok cabbie Wiwat
Wongsankh confessed that the gun was his, and that he was high, but the
drugs weren’t his.
Boonlua Chatree
A Bangkok taxi driver in town to escape flooding was
arrested with crystal methamphetamines, ecstasy and a loaded handgun in his
car.
Wiwat Wongsankh, 35, was apprehended at a central Pattaya
police checkpoint Nov. 11. Three ecstasy pills, 1.5 g. of ya ice, a 9 mm.
pistol and drug paraphernalia was recovered from his sedan.
Wiwat, who tested positive for meth use, reportedly
confessed to owning the gun, but denied knowledge of the drugs or
paraphernalia found.
The Bangkok cabbie said he and his family had come to
Pattaya to attend a funeral and that he had rented a house in Naklua to stay
at while flood waters threatened his neighborhood in the capital. He
admitted to using drugs that day and said he’d been shopping and was simply
returning home when the police pulled him over.
