Two Thai Women Arrested At Airport With Heroin From India

[sriracha john]

Two women arrested for allegedly smuggling heroin from India

Two Thai women were arrested Friday for allegedly smuggling in heroin bars into the kingdom from India.

Officials from the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and 191 emergency police stopped the women at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport.

The arrest followed the arrest of a Thai man and his sister on Tuesday for smuggling in heroin from India by swallowing 50 bars of the drug each.

ONCB secretary-general Kitti Limchaikij said the two suspects disclosed that three Thai women would be hired to smuggle in more heroin Friday.

Kitti said officials monitored the airport and managed to arrest only two of the women, but the other managed to sneak through the check-in and got away.

Each of the women was found to have swallowed 50 heroin bars each.

The two admitted that they were hired to smuggle in the drug to Bangkok and it would be later shipped to China.

Kitti said a total of 31 Thai women were arrested during the past four months with attempts to smuggle heroin to China.

He said the drug ring liked to hire pregnant women to swallow heroin because it would be harder for officials to detect the smuggling attempt.

- The Nation

Edited May 25, 2007 by sriracha john

[sriracha john]

I can see why they would want pregnant women as that pretty much eliminates the possibility of them getting abdominal X-rays... which for a pregnant woman is not done due to the potential damage to the fetus.

[sriracha john]

Eyes on pregnant women

Police at Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday arrested a pregnant woman arriving from New Delhi who had swallowed 600 grams of heroin in 50 packets.

Two other pregnant Thai members of a drug-smuggling ring had earlier been arrested by Indian police, Narcotics Control Board secretary-general Kitti Limchaikij said.

The identity of the 30-year-old woman has not been revealed. Smugglers use pregnant women because they are exempted from X-ray scans.

Kitti said drug-smugglers were using India as an alternative route after 31 pregnant Thai women with packets of heroin in their stomach were arrested in China over the past four months. He did not say what had happened to the women arrested by Chinese authorities.

China executes drug offenders.

- The Nation