A man has been arrested for selling baby macaques after posting the protected monkeys for sale online.
Police from the Natural Resources and Environment Crime Suppression Division and Phrao police station arrested Theeraphol Chanmo, 26, at his house in Phrao district of Chiang Mai on Saturday.
The arrest was revealed on Sunday. It came after a police officer posed as a buyer interested in purchasing two 2-month-old animals as pets for 8,000 baht. He arranged to pick up the monkeys at the seller’s house.
Pol Maj Gen Pitak Uthaitham, the Natural Resources and Environment Crime Suppression Division chief, said on Sunday…
