Retiring police captain arrested for drug dealing in Nakhon Phanom

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Retiring police captain arrested for drug dealing in Nakhon Phanom

By The Nation

 

 

Upon being arrested for alleged drug trafficking on Monday, a retiring police officer in Nakhon Phanom told officials that he did it to earn sufficient money for his retirement.
 

Pol Captain Chainarong Oiphuthorn, 59, deputy investigative inspector attached to the Nakhon Phanom police head office, was arrested by troops from the Nakhon Phanom office of the Internal Security Operations Command in a sting operation on Monday.

 

Officials from the Nakhon Phanom ISOC office said 6,000 methamphetamine pills and 9.5 kilograms of marijuana were seized from Chainarong’s home in the province’s Muang district during the arrest.

 

ISOC officials had been tipped off that the officer was engaging in drug trafficking, and so an undercover officer contacted Chainarong seeking to buy 2,000 meth pills from him for Bt50,000.

 

Chainarong was arrested when he showed up to deliver the drug in exchange for the money. Officials took them to search his house and found more drugs.

 

He told ISOC officials that he would retire in October and so had tried to raise enough money to spend with his family during his retirement.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30368977

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-05-07

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[Thaiwrath]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

he did it to earn sufficient money for his retirement.

Should have joined the army !

[unamazedloso]

transfer or prison for retirement? I wonder how many are doing the same....

 

[RJRS1301]

No pointing in the photograph?????

Dealing in his own region seems a little stupid.

 

[Jazz5555]

I don't believe this, I sure he was just running his own undercover sting. Thai police the most honest police in the world.

[Briggsy]

Just a captain after all those years. Relatively small fish.

[Briggsy]

2 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

No pointing in the photograph?????

Dealing in his own region seems a little stupid.

 

Actually when police deal drugs, I am told by Thais they stick rigidly to their own jurisdiction as they are protected there and will not be exposed. However, at the moment, the army rules the roost on the national stage so police are not safe even in their own fiefdoms.

[PingRoundTheWorld]

What's really surprising about this story is that he got arrested. Didn't pass the money up the line? Or just army making BIB lives harder?

[Just1Voice]

59 and only a Captain? 

[soalbundy]

He succeeded, he won't need his pension now, free bed and board.

[55Jay]

The Army and the RTP have their own rice bowls and up-line tribute chains.  This poor dumb bastard became a sacrificial lamb, because that's good for optics now and then.   The Cops are livid at the bad PR, but go along to get along, paying forced lip service about keeping the force "clean", for the greater good, blah blah blah.

 

If the Army wanted to, they could rip the guts out of the RTP in 2 weeks.  But they don't, because that's bad for National Peace and Order optics, and they loathe having to perform and/or oversee the RTP's mundane, daily routine.   Moreover, it would interfere with operations and profit flows, and would bleed into the international media, making Thailand look like the functionally dysfunctional, corrupt hermit kingdom that it is.  And that would make a few people unhappy.

 

If you could somehow wave a magic wand and reform the RTP as the incorruptible minder of Thailand and its institutions, where would that leave the Army though?  The Lesser of Two Evils.  The Reluctant Savior of Mother Thailand.

[happy chappie]

7 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Just a captain after all those years. Relatively small fish.

Who needs promotion when your sat making big bucks with a nice air con office.

[oldrunner]

Does this mean he won't get his retirement?

[Benmart]

22 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

59 and only a Captain? 

The article is not about age or the rank of the person arrested, nor is it about the lack of intelligence by those who seem to see a connection between the two.

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[chama]

Should have insisted on fatter envelopes like his partners in crime. The RTP have developed a very successful method, all he needed to do was follow it. Oops!

[Isaanbiker]

On 5/7/2019 at 3:30 PM, Briggsy said:

Just a captain after all those years. Relatively small fish.

And a very dumb Captain! I hope that he meets loads of people in prison he'd arrested.