The officers, who included district officials and security personnel from the Volunteer Defense Corps (OrSor), moved in and conducted the raid at 4:40pm, said an official report of the raid. The exact address of teh shop was not reported.
At the shop officers arrested a 24-year-old Thai male, not named in the report.
Officers also seized 95 1,500ml bottles of kratom juice and 184 1,000ml bottles of kratom juice, and eight large pots for producing the banned drink.
The man was taken to Chalong Police Station and charged with producing and selling a product prohibited from being produced, imported. or sold as per an announcement by the Ministry of Public Health, and with breaches of the Food Act. The man was also charged with breach of the Herbal Products Act.