At 1 am on Friday Pattaya Police arrested a small-time drug dealer, Mr. Maroot Yuwapan, who led them to a local community leader and anti-drug activist leading a double life as a ya-ba dealer.

Miss Sasigan Toongjan, aged 30 was caught by police after she was contacted to deliver 30 tablets of ya-ba to Sopon Market located at the traffic light of Soi 17, South Pattaya road.

Miss Sasigan is currently the secretary of the Khopai Community Committee and has worked together with community development volunteers on anti-drug programs for youth. She confessed that she had been a ya-ba dealer and Mr. Maroot’s supplier, for a while and did it to feed her children. Both she and Mr. Maroot were charged with a class one offense, drug possession for sale, and sent for legal proceedings.

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