10 million meth pills, 4kg of heroin seized in seven drug busts

By Supachai Phetchthewee 
The Nation

 

 

The Police Narcotics Suppression Bureau recently made seven drug busts that netted 10 suspects and resulted in the confiscation of 10 million methamphetamine pills and nearly four kilograms of heroin.

 

National police deputy commissioner Pol General Chalermkiat Srivorakan said on Friday that the NSB also seized other illicit drugs including crystal meth or "ice", ecstasy pills and cocaine.

 

He said separate searches in 11 communities during January 18-31 also netted 32 suspects.

 

Among the seven drug busts, there were three key cases including the arrest of Surachai Bese, 27, on Monday night in Chiang Rai with 4 million methamphetamine pills he is alleged to have smuggled from a border location. 

 

Chalermkiat said the second case saw drug suspect Polawat Lungsikaew, 23, killed in a shootout with Army troops in Chiang Rai while attempting to smuggle 2.8 million methamphetamine pills into Thailand from Myanmar on Sunday night. Police are hunting for Polawat's accomplice who escaped, he added. 

 

In the third case, a 46-year-old bus driver Prom Rattanakrajang and his elder brother Thanathip, 50, were arrested on January 20 along with 2.82 million methamphetamine pills in Chiang Rai.

 

Police also seized nearly 5,000 ecstasy pills hidden inside a Santa Claus stuff toy, a train-shape pillow and some toy boxes in three packages mailed from other countries and expect to arrest the senders and recipients soon, he said.

 

Chalermkiat also said that the police drug suppression in the past three months since November 2018-January 2019 had seen 113,000 drug busts which confiscated a total of 248.4 million methamphetamine pills, 4,324 kilograms of "ice", 442 kilograms of heroine, and 3,454 kilograms of marijuana.

 

Preventive measures have been implemented in 14,820 villages nationwide under the Prachakhom Mooban Tortan Yaseptid (Civil Society Villages Fighting Against Drugs) project, he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30363362

 

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Do the drugs get destroyed?

Wow.  248,000,000 meth pills in 3 months?  Plus all the Ice, Heroin etc.   Assuming that only a small fraction of drugs are intercepted it leads one to ask....just how many people are on this stuff?

I'm starting to think these numbers are produced by TAT.

18 hours ago, HLover said:

Do the drugs get destroyed?

sort of

21 hours ago, HLover said:

Do the drugs get destroyed?

They get recycled 

1 hour ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

A surprising amount of Thais take yaa baa and yaa ice. 

 

At the place I work several of the staff have done bird for drug dealing. They were employed before I started so I had no say in the hiring process. 

 

Drug use and dealing is very discrete though so many foreigners, even expats have no clue of the real extent of the problem.

I wonder if all the yaa baa use is responsible for the hair trigger tempers that we read about so much.

Remember,who is using this Meth,  bus drivers , mini van drivers, taxi drivers , boat operators and on and on.......beware out their....

1 minute ago, mok199 said:

Remember,who is using this Meth,  bus drivers , mini van drivers, taxi drivers , boat operators and on and on.......beware out their....

and the nightclub and disco patrons, so beware while shaking your buns.

Just now, mok199 said:

Remember,who is using this Meth,  bus drivers , mini van drivers, taxi drivers , boat operators and on and on.......beware out their....

Yeah...no doubt.  Probably best to avoid any late night bus/minivan/taxi rides.  No guarantees of course.

golden triangle.  probably 1 billion pills produced a year.  10 million is great, but very little.  i wonder what part of the world isn't on some crime supply chain, but in Thailand it's pretty high up on the list.  

 

does it increase the risk of us dying because a driver is on it?  yes.

 

will you move because of it?  of course not.  carry on...

You don’t hear much about the highest penalty. I wonder what it takes to qualify?