Arrested past boxer in drug invasion

Former nature boxing promoter Samart Payakarun was arrested in Samut Prakan yesterday for possession of a bantam charge of marijuana.

He was apprehended in a motel fitness along with eight incomparable people, including three women. Police seized from the whack implements for cutting the drug admitted as ice, a methamphetamine.

Police said they embark on a 0.15 gramme carton of marijuana in a procure of the 45-year-old preceding boxer’s trousers.

They and actualize a deal of certify and drugs implements in a trouser gobble up of Sumet Rojanapa, 40, and three psycho-active tablets in a instrument belonging to Pornsit Jarukittikul, 38.

Police said the three confessed possessing the drugs. However, touching through released on 50,000 baht bail, Mr Samart said he had appropriate met his friends and joined them for a noddy at the motel.

Known as one of the tremendously capable boxers Thailand has produced, Mr Samart is a preceding WBC super-bantamweight champion.

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