SOURCE: Pattaya City News: February 12th 2007

Ghanaian man caught by Narcotics Police with 50g of Crystal Methamphetamine in Soi 8.

The Narcotics Suppression Bureau based in Bangkok is a division of the Royal Thai Police. This department works deep undercover and will normally not allow journalists to document their work.

However, on Friday Night we were granted exclusive access to a case that took place here in Pattaya. An undercover operation took place in Soi 8 off Pattaya Second Road at around 9pm and was based on intelligence received from the Bangkok Bureau. The information stated that a foreign man was on his way down to Pattaya with the intention of selling a large quantity of Crystal Methamphetamine, known locally as “Ya Ice”.

The target arrived on schedule and was arrested inside the Soi. Mr. Samual Oteng aged 30 from Ghana was caught in possession of 50g of Ice with a street value of over 300,000 Baht. He was taken back to the local Narcotics Bureau Office and confessed to purchasing the drugs from a fellow Ghanaian in Bangkok. He claimed that he had run out of money and needed to get to Austria to see his brother.

The Ghanaian man in Bangkok, who is currently part of a further investigation and can therefore not be named offered commission if he sold the drugs to a Thai woman in Pattaya. What both men failed to realize was that the Thai woman was an operative working for the Narcotics Bureau.

Mr. Oteng was later transferred to the Bangkok Office and was charged with dealing in a class 1 narcotic which could see him spend a considerable amount of time behind bars, if convicted.

Welcome to long prison sentence.

PLUS he has to pay the costs of his deportation. Likely this guy will be rivalling the Nigerian for longest spell in the IDC.

PLUS he has to pay the costs of his deportation.

Should of come to England to get caught, free bed and board, free gym and playstation and all expenses paid deportation flight upon release should he choose to go

Glenbat---so true.

I have just finished building a hospital wing in Nottingham prison here in the UK.

The prisoners exercise yard was seperated from our building site by a wire fence so everyday we got to see the cons..more than 80% of them were of ethnic origin and they were catered for big style.

Televisions in their cells and YES playstations too! Their food was the best quality with so many choices.

One of them even bragged to the guards that he was making £1500 per day whilst he was locked up---from his drugs operation on the 'outside'

Most of the guys on site were living away from home and thier living conditions and food were far worse than that of these convicts.

Ah well at least in Thailand this drug dealing scum will get a meaningful pinishment for his crimes.