Thai police are cracking down on foreigners breaking the law in Thailand. Many of these foreigners are being turned into the police by local Thai’s.
Thai police in each tourist destination are cracking down on foreigners overstaying their visas and those working illegally in the country. This is not going over well with local Thai’s, who are the ones reporting the foreigners to the police.
Residents on Koh Pha Ngan island in the southern province of Surat Thani alerted the Tourist Police to a Russian-Canadian man found overstaying his visa and begging for food from locals.
Residents on the island reported to the Tourist Police that they witnessed a foreign man begging for food from various households and sleeping on a footpath. The foreigner’s begging behavior annoyed people in the area, prompting them to contact the police.
Officers arrested the foreigner, later identified as 56 year old half-Russian, half-Canadian man Dimitri, outside the IT product store, Banana IT, yesterday, August 12. Dimitri was found to have overstayed his visa by 1,599 days, approximately four years.
In other news Maldivian gangsters were arrested.
Thai police arrested three Maldivian nationals linked to a notorious gang, wanted for attempted murder, and overstaying their visas. The men were captured in Bangkok following a high-stakes operation.
Thai police raided a luxury hotel in Kph Pha Ngan and arrested a 47 year old Nigerian national for possession of cocaine and overstaying his visa. The Nigerian, Kenneth, claimed to use magic to evade detection during his drug transactions.
Tourist Police Chief Saksira Puek-am revealed that the operation was conducted as part of a broader crime suppression effort targeting illegal activities, including drug trafficking and unauthorized foreign workers.
At the beginning of the month, officers from the Phuket Provincial Immigration Office arrested 7 foreigners for overstaying their visas. The nationalities of these foreign nationals were not made public.
Pha Ngan Tourist Police in the southern province of Surat Thani reported the successful arrest of an Israeli drug dealer and a Russian man illegally operating a barbershop on the island.
Pha Ngan Tourist Police launched an operation to arrest foreigners working illegally and committing crimes on the island following multiple complaints from locals in the area. The investigation into these illegal activities led officers to the alleged Israeli drug dealer, later identified as 27 year old Libby Rosenfeld Cohen.
Libby was reportedly found living a luxurious life and offering ecstasy to foreign visitors on the Koh Pha Ngan island. Police posed as customers ordering ecstasy from Libby and arranged a meeting to transfer the drug.
Libby arrived at the meeting point on her Yamaha AEROX motorcycle. She was shocked to see the police instead of her customer. Officers requested to search her and found ecstasy tablets packed in a plastic zip-lock bag.
Libby was charged under Section 145 of the Narcotics Control Act for possessing a Category 1 drug (ecstasy) for sale. The penalty is imprisonment from two to 20 years and a fine of 200,000 to 2 million baht.
The Israeli drug dealer confessed to her drug-dealing activities and cried throughout the arrest and legal proceedings.
In the other case, officers found a Russian man, 29 year old Vladislav Rovinskii, advertising his barbershop on a Telegram application, which is popular among Russian nationals. Officers then raided his shop yesterday and found he was providing a service to a foreign customer.
A barber is a prohibited occupation according to Thai law, and his shop was also operated without a license.
Rovinskii was charged under Section 8(1) of the Emergency Decree on Foreigners’ Working Management for working without a work permit or working outside of what he was entitled to do. The penalty is a fine of 5,000 to 50,000 baht, deportation, and a ban on applying for a work permit for two years.
Thailand prison is one place you never want to be.
If you come to Thailand and break the law, you might be surprised who turns you into the police. Foreigner criminals are not wanted here.