Trouble flares with undercover investigators

Two Undercover private investigators were injured when a bouncer at a South Pattaya disco and four other Thai men beat them before firing a handgun into the air.Brit Craig phillips, 39, and an unidentified Thai man were treated for a broken nose, cuts and bruises at Pattaya Memorial Hospital. Both were extremely dazed and unable to give statements to officers at the time.




Police who arrived to find the club still open illegally at 6 a.m. Oct. 31 interviewed numerous witnesses who all relayed the same story: A club employee got into a dispute with the two men who were carrying out an investigation on a girl who worked there and, when the shoving started, four other Thais piled on and beat the two foreign men senseless.

The assault only ended, witnesses said, when the bouncer filed two shots from a pistol in the air and the Thais stopped kicking the downed men and ran away.

Police pledged to continue their investigation, although they took no action against the disco for operating past closing time or for its overzealous “security” guards.

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A British man was arrested for allegedly helping a foreign website operator market nearly 10 million baht in illegal steroids, sedatives and sexual-performance drugs.




Neil Patterson Hartley, 58, was taken into custody at the Mickey Beer Bar on Soi Buakaow Nov. 4. In a later raid of his View Talay 6 condominium office, Bangkok Crime Suppression Division investigators and bargirl-spy investigators discovered a pharmacy’s worth of drugs being packaged for overseas distribution.



Among the contraband were sexual-performance drugs Kamagra jelly, Levitra, and Viagra. Police said several of these were branded copies of the actual drug. Also in the office were sleeping pills and stronger sedatives such as diazepam. Most were packed in bottles or envelopes ready for distribution. Investigators also uncovered a cache of illegal steroids, including HG521c.

Hartley was charged with purchase, concealment and distribution of illegal narcotics, import-export violations, pharmaceutical-license offenses and working without a work permit.

Police allege Hartley was behind a website marketing the drugs to overseas customers. The suspect denied he owned the website, saying it was operated by a Keith Ireland, who was out of the country. The website reportedly was registered in Uzbekistan.

Website company staffer Jariya Paromphao, who opened the door for investigators, told police the drugs were all purchased inside Thailand.

Investigators raided a second office and uncovered additional drugs, plus financial records indicating Hartley earned as much as 3 million baht per year.
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