74 gamblers rounded up in raid – Bangkok Post

A police pickup truck transports gamblers to the Muang police station after security authorities raided a gambling den in Muang district of Samut Prakan province on Saturday night. (Photo by Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)

SAMUT PRAKAN -- Seventy-four gamblers were rounded up by a combined police and military team in a raid on a house in Muang district late on Saturday night, police said.

Pol Col Torpong Tantrawanich, the Muang district police chief, said the raid followed complaints from residents that the one-storey house with two rooms in Soi Noree in tambon Thai Ban Mai had been opened for gambling on Chinese card games.

During the raid, the police and soldiers rounded up 38 gamblers from the first room and 36 from the second room. They also seized three television sets, three computers, 17 closed-circuit television cameras, 1,440 setsof cards, two card dispensers, 377,910 baht in cash, and other gambling equipment.

Veerapong Vehacha, 28, admitted to being the banker of the card games. He allegedly confessed to have operated the gambling den for about a year. He was charged with operating a gambling facility without permission.

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