SURAT THANI — Police have arrested two high school teachers and two others for selling methamphetamine pills to pupils in front of the private school where they worked.
The two teachers were identified as Supaporn Buapetch, 36, and Apichart Sornnucha, 29. The pair worked at a private school in Ban Na San district.
Pol Col Arun Klawwatee, chief of Investigation Division Provincial Police Region 8, said the arrests came after officers received a complaint that a teacher at the school had sold methamphetamine pills, or ya ba, to local youngsters and used the institute as a meeting point to deliver the drugs to the young customers.
Investigators soon learned that Ms Supaporn and Mr Apichart had been operating as the drug delaers. Ms Supaporn was arrested during a sting operation when she was delivering 240 ya ba tablets to an undercover policeman for 30,000 baht outside her school.
Ms Supaporn allegedly confessed that the drugs belonged to her husband Thanasak Po-in, 34. A search at his home found 110 meth tablets. Mr Thanasak, who is the gang leader, later led police to the home of the fourth gang member Somkiat Chaisakul, 34, where another 1,300 ya ba pills were hidden.
After her arrest, Ms Supaporn told police she had hidden 50 speed pills near the school’s fence for Mr Apichart to pick up.
Pol Col Arun said the gang leader was a son of a local politician. He was a former drug convict released from Surat Thani Central Prison about a year ago.