Police hail giant Chiang Mai meth bust

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Police hail giant Chiang Mai meth bust

By Khanathit Srihirundaj 
The Nation

 

 

Around 9 million methamphetamine pills and 300kg of crystal meth or "ice" had been confiscated in Chiang Mai province shortly after the arrest of a fugitive on Monday, the police claimed.
 

Officers apprehended five other suspects in Ayutthaya on Thursday who were to collect the smuggled drugs, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) secretary-general Sirinya Sidthichai told a press conference on Friday.

 

Sirinya said that this major bust started when the ONCB Region 5 and police arrested the 43-year-old hill tribesman Panatkit Soponphumpanya. He said the man was wanted for a drugs crime in December 2010 with a Chon Buri arrest warrant. He was arrested in Chiang Mai's Mae Taeng district on Monday along with assets worth Bt10 million, Sirinya said.

 

The investigation then purportedly found that Panatkit was in the middle of a drug deal in which a supplier in neighbouring Myanmar hid a large batch of Golden Triangle "wine1" meth pills and "ice" along the border in Chiang Mai's Chiang Dao district for him to transport to Ayutthaya.

 

He said officers confiscated the drugs in Chiang Dao and arrested the five suspects in Ayutthaya, identified as Parinya Songsopam 24, Atthapol Leupaya, 20, Ekkapol Panchanmaen, 31, Sumalee Sriburin, 33 and a male suspect aged 17, who were waiting to collect the drugs, Sirinya said.

 

ONCB and police would continue to probe the case to arrest the rest of the suspects, he said.

 

Sirinya said the authorities would also monitor the moving of sodium cyanide, which can be synthesised into the narcotic substrate called phenyl-2-propanone for the making of meth.

 

The ONCB chief said Burmese factories had legally ordered sodium cyanide from a third country but there were suspicions that the product was being transported via Thailand instead.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30347822

 

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[RotMahKid]

I just want that they show us when they burn it, with witnesses. Otherwise I think they sell it them self, use it or even ship it to the other city, so those police can show off their big bust. I don't trust them with anything.

[anon7867763]

"The police claimed" LOL

 

[connda]

Busting Sonchai the taxi driver for 9 meth pills -- not news
Busting a trafficking cartel for 9 million pills and 300 kg of ICE- kudos, nice bust.  That will save a few million teenaged users brain-cells in the near future. 

[Briggsy]

Recycle and resell. Too big a temptation for the cops not to. Too much cash. Too many pick-ups could be bought, too many nights out down the karaoke could be had on the cash that would bring in. Recycle and resell.

[thaiguzzi]

Jeez. Used to regularly read about the one mil pill busts, nearly weekly. Then 3. Now 9 mil. And 300 kgs of Meth. That is a seriously big bust.

Will not hamper the flow though. Will just keep on comin' through... Never stop it.

[alant]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

sodium cyanide

How on earth do they get hold of this stuff?

[Gandtee]

2 hours ago, connda said:

Busting Sonchai the taxi driver for 9 meth pills -- not news
Busting a trafficking cartel for 9 million pills and 300 kg of ICE- kudos, nice bust.  That will save a few million teenaged users brain-cells in the near future. 

I will praise the police only when they capture a mastermind and the producers of this stuff. As it is now it's almost like them standing outside a 7-11 waiting for the delivery truck to turn up. Capture the truck and then another one arrives a few days later. Blowing in the wind.?

[moe666]

2 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Jeez. Used to regularly read about the one mil pill busts, nearly weekly. Then 3. Now 9 mil. And 300 kgs of Meth. That is a seriously big bust.

Will not hamper the flow though. Will just keep on comin' through... Never stop it.

Until they go to the source in Burma and put out the various players there. All this stuff comes from Burma

[thaiguzzi]

21 minutes ago, moe666 said:

Until they go to the source in Burma and put out the various players there. All this stuff comes from Burma

Yeah, but they won't.

Just too much money to be made.

3-4 decades ago it was heroin and opium. Now it's meth.

Too many "influential" people involved on both sides of the border, inc politicians, military and police.

Let alone run of the mill gangsters....

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[LomSak27]

7 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

29 minutes ago, moe666 said:

Until they go to the source in Burma and put out the various players there. All this stuff comes from Burma

Yeah, but they won't.

Just too much money to be made.

3-4 decades ago it was heroin and opium. Now it's meth.

Too many "influential" people involved on both sides of the border, inc politicians, military and police.

Let alone run of the mill gangsters....

The last line of the article nails it ... the precursor chemicals are coming from ....... wait for it ..............

 

21 hours ago, webfact said:

The ONCB chief said Burmese factories had legally ordered sodium cyanide from a third country but there were suspicions that the product was being transported via Thailand instead.

The MONEY SHOT

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[lanista]

High ranking Thai army  creeps are running the show which is why no one is allowed to go over the border and destroy the meth labs.

The Burmese government obviously knows about it and gets a big cut of the profit.How many kids of Burmese government officials are educated in the best overseas schools and universities? The woman leader Ung song ki  sent her kids to Oxford or Cambridge apparenty.

Too many people have a vested interest in keeping the labs open. Law enforcement is window dressing for the sheeple.

[arithai12]

On 6/16/2018 at 8:34 AM, connda said:

Busting Sonchai the taxi driver for 9 meth pills -- not news
Busting a trafficking cartel for 9 million pills and 300 kg of ICE- kudos, nice bust.  That will save a few million teenaged users brain-cells in the near future. 

Great bust, I agree, but sadly this will save no one. As long as there is demand, there will be offer, and if the offer is less the price will just go up. Someone will replace those busted.

The only way that a few million users can be saved is to decrease the demand.

[canthai55]

On 6/16/2018 at 8:31 PM, arithai12 said:

The only way that a few million users can be saved is to decrease the demand.

Want to end the War on Drugs overnight ?

Want to alleviate all the suffering accompanying this War ?

Want to stop the Criminals, and everyone else who has an interest in the War ? Shut down the Cartels ? The Corruption ?

Decriminalize all Drugs.

Drug use and Drug Abuse is a Health and Social Services problem, and until it is looked at and treated this way the ' War ' will never end.

Drugs have never been so pure, so cheap, and so plentiful. Why ?

The War on Drugs has increased demand, hence increased profit, hence increased criminal activity, hence increased corruption.

Simple.