Lampang: Monks defrocked after drug bust

LAMPANG — Three Buddhist monks and two other men were arrested on charges of taking illicit drugs at a temple in Muang district on Saturday.

Police searched the monks’ living quarters at Wat Huathung Samakkhi in tambon Phrabat following a complaint that some monks and young men were using the monastery as a place to get high.

Read more: Bangkok Post

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