PATTAYA POLICE RAID COYOTEES GO GO BAR – OWNER AND MAMASAN ARRESTED

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Pattaya, August 22, [PDN]: At 2:00 am on August 22nd 2009, Pattaya
Immigration police carried out a raid on the Coyotees Go Go Bar in
central Pattaya. An Australian national and a Thai were arrested on
charges of human trafficking and operating a prostitution business.

Pattaya’s immigration police superintendent, Police Colonel Atiswis
Kamonrat, and his team paid an unexpected visit to the bar situated in building
no. 374/7-11 next to the Marine hotel in Walking street. The two storey building
housed a bar on the ground floor and rooms on the second floor.

Police
searched the bar and detained 21 female dancers, including one from Cambodia.
Two under aged (17) girls were found in the rooms on the second floor servicing
customers.

The bar owner, an Australian named Trevor James Halley [52],
and the Mamasan, Mrs Watcharee Bahtpoh [44], were both arrested and taken into
custody.

Mrs Watcharee confessed that she
had been the Mamasan, hosting and providing women to the clients. All the women,
including those under-aged, confessed to the charges made against them while Mr.
Halley denied the charges - he claimed he had nothing to do with the
prostitution business but the officials did not believe him.

After the
investigation they were all taken to the Pattaya police station for further
processing.