Week’s drug bust tally hits 46

[webfact]

Week’s drug bust tally hits 46

By The Nation

 

 

Police, soldiers and Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) officials scooped up 46 people, an array of illegal drugs and a brace of pistols during raids in nine provinces this week.

 

ONCB deputy secretary-general Pol Maj Suriya Singhakamon announced on Friday that 5,352 meth pills, half a gram of crystal meth (“ice”) and a kilogram of krathom leaves had been seized in targeted communities in 23 districts, along with two pistols and 40 rounds of ammunition.

 

The raids took place in 12 Bangkok communities, Samut Prakan, Prachin Buri, Nakhon Ratchasima, Sakhon Nakhon, Phitsanulok, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Krabi and Narathiwat.

 

The people arrested included two drug manufacturers and 32 “drug abusers”. Four others were charged with possession with intent to sell and eight with simple possession.

 

Arrests in drug raids since last October now total 742 peddlers, 25 manufacturers and 2,846 abusers, Suriya said.

 

The tally in confiscated drugs is 10,208,211 meth pills, 36,426 grams of ice, 175 grams of heroin, 1,105,156 grams of marijuana, 419,131 grams of krathom leaves, 523 litres of krathom drink, 19 krathom plants, 1,061 grams of ketamine, 470 grams of opium and 6,786 ecstasy pills.

 

Seventy guns and 440 bullets were seized in the same period along with Bt24 million worth of suspects’ assets.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30375247

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2019-08-23

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[mok199]

No mention of the Cocaine seized...where could that high value party drug have gone.

[FarFlungFalang]

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

1,105,156 grams of marijuana,

Looks like they found my personal use stash.

[bluesofa]

57 minutes ago, webfact said:

Police, soldiers and Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) officials scooped up 46 people, an array of illegal drugs and a brace of pistols during raids in nine provinces this week

Is that the collective noun for pistols? I thought 'brace' was used for pheasants.

(Or Australian foreplay: "Brace yerself, Shelia.")

[Vacuum]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Week’s drug bust tally hits 46

And after weekly busts like this for a 100 years, you'll probably catch the same numbers of users/sellers.

[Emdog]

46? really? In nation of 66+ million? What are police and courts smoking?

I suppose making all those fancy charts uses up lots of resouces and slows them down to boot.

[Tropposurfer]

Any quantity of drugs off the streets is good.

Any amount of suppliers, traffickers busted and drugs confiscated and destroyed is good. 

Socially, for a healthy society supply due to demand needs to be addressed.

As for the comments about ‘only 40 odd busts’ how many narcotics (and supporting RTP) officers do you think the RTP have ?

No police force on the planet has enough officers and resources to mount stings that net all or large amounts of those involved in trafficking manufacture etc on weekly or monthly basis.

Occasionally some forces will get results like the Donnie Brasco job in the US. Perhaps the naysayers here might like to get some understanding of the difficulty of law enforcement and mix it thoroughly with their cynicism, the <deleted> funding and training offered RTP, and the RTPs endemic corruption to understand the background to such numbers.