RATCHABURI: A suspected major online wildlife trader has been arrested and items including pelts of wild tigers and leopard cats, barking deer antlers and animal bones seized during a raid on a house in Pak Tho district.
Wildlife officials had set up a sting to arrest a man named Thanasit, who is alleged to be a major wildlife trader on Facebook, Mongkhol Chaipakdi, chief of the Phaya Sua task force, said on Thursday.
He did not disclose the man’s full name, but Thai media identified the wildlife trader as Thanasit Sripatchim.
An official was assigned to buy leopard pelts from…
