A Thai woman was arrested at Suvarnabhumi international airport on Wednesday as she tried to smuggle about 2.3kg of cocaine, worth about 6.9 million baht on the street, into the country.

 

The woman arrived on a flight from Doha, Qatar, on a Qatar Airways flight.

 

Customs officials at the airport became suspicious and asked to have her luggage scanned and her backpack searched. They found the narcotic hidden in five bags of clothes in the backpack.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/woman-arrested-with-2-3kg-of-cocaine-in-her-backpack-at-bangkok-airport/

 

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Poor Thai woman, she looks rather youngish and the article doesn't say much about her. As a non patented Sherlock, I dare suggest she needed that money to help family members in dire needs...

They never learn 

4 hours ago, blueCloud888 said:

Poor Thai woman, she looks rather youngish

I take my hat off to someone who can guess someone's age from a white square :)

immigration became suspicious how ? she either raised a few red flags or immigration was tipped off...to let the others through. 

5 hours ago, still kicking said:

They never learn 

They do, one at a time. 

meanwhile another 25 kg got through, it's amazing the immigration have never got onto that well known trick

Edited July 13, 20232 yr by ChipButty

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

meanwhile another 25 kg got through, it's amazing the immigration have never got onto that well known trick

Where did you read that? Or did you just make it up?

8 hours ago, blueCloud888 said:

Poor Thai woman, she looks rather youngish and the article doesn't say much about her. As a non patented Sherlock, I dare suggest she needed that money to help family members in dire needs...

Or pay off gambling debts.

Unfortunately, because she was caught entering Thailand, and not Australia for example, she will now not be eligible for a career in politics.

9 hours ago, still kicking said:

They never learn 

Life is all a gamble. The die was cast. She lost. I wish she didn't. These Americanized drug laws are a scourge to the world

 

I took my hair wax container, removed the hair product and filled it with Valiums in a bag, then packed some of the product back over it and put it in my luggage. I got sweated at the Vancouver airport. The first thing they did was take my plastic bag with my toiletries and set it off to the side. And then went through all my cloths and suitcase lining. They found nothing and then put the plastic bag back ontop and gave it to me and let me go.

Edited July 14, 20232 yr by Harsh Jones

2 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Where did you read that? Or did you just make it up?

One mule gets caught (after a tip-off); because of the distraction of that, five more get through. It's from the (fictional) movie "Brokedown Palace"; don't know of any real-life examples, although it sounds like a good plan.

1 minute ago, Cory1848 said:

One mule gets caught (after a tip-off); because of the distraction of that, five more get through. It's from the (fictional) movie "Brokedown Palace"; don't know of any real-life examples, although it sounds like a good plan.

It is. Except the tip-off might also warn there's more than one mule.

8 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

It is. Except the tip-off might also warn there's more than one mule.

In the movie at least, the girls who got caught were kept totally in the dark; they didn't have a clue about the overall plan.

The flight crew may have noticed odd behavior, nervous agitated. She may have been sweating bullets when she disembarked the plane. In any case most likely she drew attention to herself, is what flight crews and airport security are trained to look for. She had the dope in five bags, certainly not all bags were carry-on, so her checkered luggage was probably sniffed out by a dope/money sniffing airport security dog back in the luggage room.

Just now, novacova said:

The flight crew may have noticed odd behavior, nervous agitated. She may have been sweating bullets when she disembarked the plane. In any case most likely she drew attention to herself, is what flight crews and airport security are trained to look for. She had the dope in five bags, certainly not all bags were carry-on, so her checkered luggage was probably sniffed out by a dope/money sniffing airport security dog back in the luggage room.

@novacova I doubt very much that is the job of the flight crew and that would prove nothing anyway. plenty of people nervous and agitated on flights cuz they don't like flying. 

19 minutes ago, paulikens said:

@novacova I doubt very much that is the job of the flight crew and that would prove nothing anyway. plenty of people nervous and agitated on flights cuz they don't like flying. 

Actually not, knowing the airline business, there definitely signs that flight crews are trained to watch for. There are different levels of agitation and many are flagged and airport security will most definitely have a closer look without the passenger ever knowing. One example of many, asking many or abnormal questions to the flight attendants. They don’t care if the person is a 90 year old grandma, there’s protocol to follow per airline/country based. People do strange things and mess up when they’re under the gun.

Edited July 14, 20232 yr by novacova

12 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

I take my hat off to someone who can guess someone's age from a white square :)

He bothered to follow the link to the article which shows the poor girl contemplating a bleak future

For the confused above...

 

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/woman-arrested-with-2-3kg-of-cocaine-in-her-backpack-at-bangkok-airport/

 

 

That would have got you 15 bullets from a Heckler-Koch machine gun back in the day.