Thread: Sri Racha Karaoke bar was a front for prostitution

Karaoke bar was a front for prostitution
Boonlua Chatree

Police from the Division for Suppression of Crime against Children, Juveniles and Women together with officers from Laem Chabang Provincial Police Station raided a karaoke bar that was also acting as a brothel and arrested the owner.

Already suspecting that Nongporn Karaoke near to Nongpedhai Intersection in Sriracha was being used for nefarious purposes, police arranged a sting operation by sending an undercover officer into the premises with 2,000 baht with which he was to offer to buy sexual services.
Just after midnight on August 9, Laem Chabang police and officers from the Division for Suppression of Crime against Children, Juveniles and Women together with a social welfare official, totaling some 20 officers, surrounded the premises as the undercover officer entered.
Nongporn Karaoke is located in a four-story building with the ground floor used for karaoke and the upper floors partitioned into smaller rooms, some of them for staff and others as it was subsequently discovered for commercial sexual activity.
The undercover officer agreed to pay for sex with a female attendant in the bar and paid 2,000 baht as a service fee. Having taken the girl to a 2nd floor room he signaled to the waiting police, who then entered the premises.
The officers apprehended the bar owner, 58-year-old Mrs Jinda Sae Lim, who was sitting taking care of the young women in the bar. The 2,000 baht used in the sting was found and kept as evidence. A man found having sex with a woman in a room on the 2nd floor was arrested. Urine tests were carried out on customers and the staff, and one woman tested positive. She admitted to having taken ya ba. A female attendant aged 17 and consequently below the legal age for working in a bar was also discovered.
Jinda said that she had previously owned a similar establishment in a nearby building but that it had been damaged by fire. She had moved into the new premises at the beginning of the previous month. She had previously been arrested by an officer of Laem Chabang Provincial Police Station on a charge of procuring for prostitution, and the court had fined her 5,000 baht. Jinda said she pitied the young women, fearing that they would have no work, and admitted that the karaoke bar was a front for prostitution.
Police say that the standard charge for having sex with one of the girls in the bar was 650 baht per hour, of which 300 baht went to the bar owner.

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