Thai police smash a major drug trafficking gang in Pathum Thani

[webfact]

 

Police have smashed a major drug trafficking gang in Pathum Thani province, arresting at least five suspects, seizing 3.4 million methamphetamine tablets and impounding 15 million baht in assets, in an operation which has been running since mid-July, according to Pol Lt-Gen Jiraphat Phumichit, commissioner of the First Region Provincial Police Bureau.

 

He said Sunday that the gang used a car, disguised as a school vehicle, to transport methamphetamine from Thailand’s northern provinces to a warehouse in Pathum Thani, before it was transported to the southernmost provinces for smuggling out of the country.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-police-smash-a-major-drug-trafficking-gang-in-pathum-thani/

 

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[HappyExpat57]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

the gang used a car, disguised as a school vehicle

How could anyone know? No actual yellow school buses. We've all seen songthaews loaded with students to the point of breaking the springs but no school vehicles.

[2baht]

5 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

We've all seen songthaews loaded with students to the point of breaking the springs but no school vehicles.

Songthaews loaded to the point of breaking the springs ARE school vehicles!

[ezzra]

Thailand and it's neighboring countries are awash with drugs and drugs dealers of all size and shapes, uncovering one is only the tip of the iceberg, still, a good catch, many more to be caught...

Edited August 22, 2022 by ezzra

[CelticBhoy]

"Police have smashed a major drug trafficking gang .."

 

They "smashed" themselves?  ????

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

Thailand and it's neighboring countries are awash with drugs and drugs dealers of all size and shapes, uncovering one is only the tip of the iceberg, still, a good catch, many more to be caught...

A failing work infrastructure is mostly to blame.

Unemployed need to eat and pay bills..

No employment drives people to crime.

[2baht]

1 minute ago, hotchilli said:

No employment drives people to crime.

So does greed.

[rudi49jr]

Uh-oh, looks like someone didn’t pay their monthly contributions to the cop’s ‘retirement fund’. 

[Burma Bill]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

used a car, disguised as a school vehicle

Perhaps an elephant as well?????

 

 

 

Edited August 22, 2022 by Burma Bill
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[Photoguy21]

When are we going to see Mr. Big in handcuffs? We see a lot of arrests of people doing the transport which is a good thing to see but it is Mr Big that needs to be arrested.

[AgMech Cowboy]

This is the typical, usual school bus type employed in Thailand.  They may not even have the name of the school on the bus, but rather the name of the contract company.  For many schools it's a much older vehicle.

 

Edited August 22, 2022 by AgMech Cowboy

[chalawaan]

Don't shoot the messenger (The Guardian) this bloke knows a thing about the war on drugs, his argument for ending it makes a lot of sense:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/26/neil-woods-undercover-cop-who-abandoned-the-war-on-drugs

[chalawaan]

1 hour ago, Photoguy21 said:

When are we going to see Mr. Big in handcuffs? We see a lot of arrests of people doing the transport which is a good thing to see but it is Mr Big that needs to be arrested.

That will stop drugs how? His enemies will send the cops a case of beer as a thank you for making a niche they can instantly fill. Criminals aren't scared of life in a Thai jail like we are! Plus, they need to get caught first. The longer they last, the richer they get, the more they can bribe. And that's why you rarely see Mr. Big anywhere! You can count the ones behind bars WORLDWIDE on the fingers of one hand and the trade is bigger than ever. 

Time to end it and legalize.

The sky won't fall.

But crime stats will! 

Edited August 22, 2022 by chalawaan

[Photoguy21]

14 minutes ago, chalawaan said:

That will stop drugs how? His enemies will send the cops a case of beer as a thank you for making a niche they can instantly fill. Criminals aren't scared of life in a Thai jail like we are! Plus, they need to get caught first. The longer they last, the richer they get, the more they can bribe. And that's why you rarely see Mr. Big anywhere! You can count the ones behind bars WORLDWIDE on the fingers of one hand and the trade is bigger than ever. 

Time to end it and legalize.

The sky won't fall.

But crime stats will! 

No they wont. They will pay off people and the trade will continue. I think we all know how it works in Thailand but that doesnt give any respite unless they do get the people at the top and deal with them. Malaysia has the right way. Over a small amount it is the death penalty.

[chalawaan]

39 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

No they wont. They will pay off people and the trade will continue. I think we all know how it works in Thailand but that doesnt give any respite unless they do get the people at the top and deal with them. Malaysia has the right way. Over a small amount it is the death penalty.

Google how Switzerland crime stats fell hugely when heroin was given away at clinics!

 

Also it's nonsense that the death penalty stops anything!

It stops you, so in your opinion, it follows it stops everyone, those are not borne out by research. 

If the death penalty stopped drugs, no one would be hung for them, would they?

 

Even being beheaded by rivals in Mexico does not stop drugs, sorry to sound rude, but you really have no idea what is involved besides what you learn in the media. 

I posted a link a little further up, maybe that will help you appreciate what the world is really up against.

There's no logical reason to criminalize drugs, none. 

 

It's all moral panic! The medical science, not paid off government doctors propaganda, and all independent research, does not support the fear-mongering around ANY of the hardest drugs. 

 

Edited August 22, 2022 by chalawaan

[The Hammer2021]

What's the point? It's an endless merry go round. The only way to halt drug trafficking is legalised control  and issuing meth, opiates etc via the  government  health service  as they did in Britain  and Iran. Once there  is no more mega profits to  be made the mafias lose interest and influence and the illegal markets shrivel.

If the police succeed in lessening the amount of drugs on the street and creating a shortage- the price goes up-this incentivises more dealers  to exploit the market to earn the greater profits- this in turn  leads a larger market until the next big bust...and so on.

The war on drugs is a war on the people

[1sickpuppy]

3 hours ago, chalawaan said:

Google how Switzerland crime stats fell hugely when heroin was given away at clinics!

 

Also it's nonsense that the death penalty stops anything!

It stops you, so in your opinion, it follows it stops everyone, those are not borne out by research. 

If the death penalty stopped drugs, no one would be hung for them, would they?

 

Even being beheaded by rivals in Mexico does not stop drugs, sorry to sound rude, but you really have no idea what is involved besides what you learn in the media. 

I posted a link a little further up, maybe that will help you appreciate what the world is really up against.

There's no logical reason to criminalize drugs, none. 

 

It's all moral panic! The medical science, not paid off government doctors propaganda, and all independent research, does not support the fear-mongering around ANY of the hardest drugs. 

 

sad but true