Sailor influx prompts Phuket ladyboy crackdown
http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2009/article7934.html (http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2009/article7934.html)
PHUKET: In advance of the arrival of two more US Navy ships full of marines ready for R&R in Phuket this week, Kathu Police are cracking down on criminal gangs of ladyboys.
Kathu Police Commander Grissak Songmoonnark said last time a large contingent of US Navy sailors were in Phuket around 80 ladyboys were arrested for petty crime.
About half of them came to the island from Pattaya with the intention of robbing the Americans, Col Grissak said.