Pattaya: Russian arrested after mixing fake drugs with help of bent Jomtien pharmacist

 

Image: Pattaya Update News

 

Drugs suppression police in Pattaya have announced the arrest of a 33 year old Russian man who fell on hard times and started mixing up his own drug concoctions that he would then sell to compatriots in the pubs and clubs of the resort.

 

At a rented house in South Pattaya he mixed chalk with Ritalin and colors to make a variety of bogus party drugs from ice to ecstasy to cocaine.

 

He said it was his own recipe and he got the Ritalin from a pharmacist whom he bribed.

 

Pattaya Update News said that police became aware of the activity of Maxim K., 33, who was staying in a two story house at Pattaya Lagoon in the Land Department Office soi.

 

An undercover officer secretly befriended him and an attempt was made to buy cocaine but the sting failed. The suspect was being cautious and would only sell to fellow Russians.

 

So surveillance was undertaken and when he was seen acting suspiciously with a Russian woman the officers had probable cause for a search and went to his house where a second Russian woman was also staying.

 

There in an upstairs bedroom they found an unspecified white powder, coloring agents and lots of pills in small ziplock bags. Out back was ganja smoking equipment and plenty of discarded spliffs that contained the remnants of marijuana.

 

 

All three suspects were taken in for questioning. Maxim soon admitted his involvement in selling drugs.

 

He said that he used to sell cocaine to Russians he met at entertainment venues in South Pattaya but since the Covid-19 crisis his supply of customers had dried up.

 

So he decided to start cooking up his own recipe for drugs made from chalk used for blackboards, colors and methylphenidate.

 

This is more widely known as Ritalin, notes Thaivisa, and is a front line treatment for ADHD but also used by party goers as a stimulant.

 

Maxim told the drugs police that he got the Ritalin, usually only available on a prescription, by paying off a pharmacist in Jomtien.

 

He would then carry the drugs he made to discos and pubs and sell for 3 - 4,000 baht a gram or at a price according to what drug the customers wanted.

 

He clearly made several bogus drugs in his house.

 

He was found to be on overstay and was detained on that while the inquiry is widened.

 

He told the investigators that the Russian women were not involved in any way but they are under investigation as are possible customers and others associated with the arrested Russian.

 

Source: Pattaya Update News

 

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Gordon Bennett....what a blaady desperate individual we have here............

10 minutes ago, petermik said:

Gordon Bennett....what a blaady desperate individual we have here............

No Russian tourists. Desparate times beget desparate measures.

51 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

No Russian tourists. Desparate times beget desparate measures.

Not a tourist, he was living and working here.

Another gold medal for Russia...

erm and the pharmacist?

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

So he decided to start cooking up his own recipe for drugs made from chalk used for blackboards

Don't know about getting whacked on his concoction but I bet they sneezed their bloody heads off with blackboard chalk in it .. 

Edited March 14, 20206 yr by Justgrazing
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Does he have a health certificate for Covid I could buy ? 

6 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Not a tourist, he was living and working here.

He's referring to his would-be customers.

8 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Not a tourist, he was living and working here.

did he have work permit ???!!

I thought they were allowed to do this

12 hours ago, Chazar said:

erm and the pharmacist?

Only evidence would be the say so of a Russian drug dealer. Not sure there'd be much of a case there. They'd have had to camera up the Russian drug dealer before he went to the pharmacy.

 

14 hours ago, rooster59 said:

He was found to be on overstay

..that wasn't enough! he had to sell illicit drugs as well

21 hours ago, rooster59 said:

sell for 3 - 4,000 baht a gram

Crazy , why would anyone destroy their own body. 

6 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

19 hours ago, Chazar said:

erm and the pharmacist?

Only evidence would be the say so of a Russian drug dealer. Not sure there'd be much of a case there. They'd have had to camera up the Russian drug dealer before he went to the pharmacy.

 perp probably extrapolated(glorified) his impression of a typical tourist/pharmacist transaction...

 - that of a falang Joe Bloe walks in, and only has an emptied falang pharmo labelled medicines box that he had brought from back home and has used up since arriving in LOS... 

Then walks out with new batch of the medicines, and gets to keep the same empty box, for next time 

 

the 'Tourist Top Up' 

22 hours ago, Chazar said:

erm and the pharmacist?

He's Thai so ignored; maybe 500 baht 'fine' & 3 wais.

Was his police record in Russia checked, before being let in to Thailand?

 

 

Just now, Captain Monday said:

Was his police record in Russia checked, before being let in to Thailand?

 

 

Do you expect they do that with every single tourist?

Silly question but what is his charge? Selling fake illegal drugs ?

 

so the crime is drugs were fake? Can not charge him with selling actual drugs , as it was not.

On 3/14/2020 at 11:25 AM, mok199 said:

Another gold medal for Russia...

I don't think the Thais view it that way....probably more like....just another farang drug dealer in Thailand........

44 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Do you expect they do that with every single tourist?

Time to rethink this Visa exempt travel nonsense. Police certificates should be required. 

On 3/14/2020 at 11:01 AM, FritsSikkink said:

Not a tourist, he was living and working here.

and burning his own countrymen, sounds familiar..

On 3/15/2020 at 10:49 AM, balo said:

Crazy , why would anyone destroy their own body. 

Chalk it up to curiosity