Three Thais held for trying to sell tiger cub via Facebook


BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The so-called Green cops on Tuesday (April 5) arrested three Thai men for allegedly selling via a Facebook group a tiger cub smuggled from Laos.

Pol Colonel Wisit Plopmuang, commander of subdivision 1 of the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division, or the so-called Green cops, said the three were arrested at 7pm at the carpark of Central Westgate in Nonthaburi province in a sting operation.

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