A pre-election crime sweep netted four suspects for Pattaya police, ranging from an alleged baht bus pickpocket to an accused human trafficker.
Buakaew Boon, 33, was charged with trafficking small children who she would take to sell fluorescent lights near Pattaya entertainment venues. If the children did not meet their quotas, she would beat them, police claimed.
Wanphen Tonjan, 39, was again charged with pickpocketing foreigners on a Second Road baht bus, a crime she had been convicted of multiple times.
Jirayu Jongjorhor, 22, was arrested on weapons charges after police found a 9 mm. handgun in his motorbike during at a roadside checkpoint.
Jetawat Prasobsuk, 24, was charged with theft after asking to borrow a mobile phone from a man on Soi Buakhao, then allegedly running away with it.
