British drug dealer arrested in Chiang Mai

[webfact]

There’s been a purge to arrest people working in Thailand without a work permit. Now, this…

 

Police, acting on a tip-off that a foreign national was selling drugs to tourists in Chiang Mai, have arrested a 48 year old British man.

 

Charly Garcia was arrested on Tuesday, March 12, according to a Nation Thailand report. He was detained during a sting operation at a shop selling cannabis products in the Mueang district of the northern province.

 

By Peter Roche

PHOTO: Thai Rath

 

Full story: PhuketGO 2024-03-14

 

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[ikke1959]

It is illegal.. Drugs business only for Thais

[transam]

Charly Garcia, sounds like German mafia, not British.........😂

[bkk6060]

Another bad news Brit.

Hope everyone reads the link article guy is a disgusting major drug dealer.

Good luck in Thai prison loser.

 

 

"During the operation, undercover police officers “bought” 12.5 grams of cocaine, 14.7 grams of ketamine, 192 grams of magic mushrooms, 13 grams of LSD, and 9.8 grams of MDMA from Garcia, before promptly arresting him."

 

[Nick Carter icp]

9 minutes ago, transam said:

Charly Garcia, sounds like German mafia, not British.........😂

 

   Sounds more like an  Argentinean musician

 

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charly_García

 

[Chetzee]

..... quite the one stop shop .... !!

[FritsSikkink]

33 minutes ago, transam said:

Charly Garcia, sounds like German mafia, not British.........😂

Both Charly and Garcia aren't German names.

Edited March 14 by FritsSikkink

[FritsSikkink]

22 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Another bad news Brit.

Hope everyone reads the link article guy is a disgusting major drug dealer.

Good luck in Thai prison loser.

 

 

"During the operation, undercover police officers “bought” 12.5 grams of cocaine, 14.7 grams of ketamine, 192 grams of magic mushrooms, 13 grams of LSD, and 9.8 grams of MDMA from Garcia, before promptly arresting him."

 

Even bigger:

"A search of the suspect’s condo in the sub-district of Chang Phueak uncovered over 400 grams of cocaine, 595 grams of magic mushrooms, and 160 Valium and Xanax pills."

[transam]

13 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Both Charly and Garcia aren't German names.

Google says Charly is German, as for Garcia, I can picture a mafia type...🤗

[jonclark]

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

Another bad news Brit.

Hope everyone reads the link article guy is a disgusting major drug dealer.

Good luck in Thai prison loser.

 

 

"During the operation, undercover police officers “bought” 12.5 grams of cocaine, 14.7 grams of ketamine, 192 grams of magic mushrooms, 13 grams of LSD, and 9.8 grams of MDMA from Garcia, before promptly arresting him."

 

 That sounds more like a good night out.  

[jonclark]

39 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Even bigger:

"A search of the suspect’s condo in the sub-district of Chang Phueak uncovered over 400 grams of cocaine, 595 grams of magic mushrooms, and 160 Valium and Xanax pills."

And this sounds like a good weekend for me and my mates. 

[Dolf]

Russians and Brits back on top. Those Swiss and Americans aren't on the same level.

[FritsSikkink]

33 minutes ago, transam said:

Google says Charly is German

No, it says Charlie is a German name.

[transam]

4 minutes ago, Dolf said:

Russians and Brits back on top. Those Swiss and Americans aren't on the same level.

Where do you Australians come in your investigation......? .........🤠

[transam]

2 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

No, it says Charlie is a German name.

Is Google wrong....?  🤔

 

https://www.thebump.com/b/charly-baby-name

[Peabody]

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

13 grams of LSD

Wow. That's at least 250,000 hits of LSD

[FritsSikkink]

20 minutes ago, transam said:

Is Google wrong....?  🤔

 

https://www.thebump.com/b/charly-baby-name

No, wrong interpretation

It actually says it is a name used in the US originated from German but from another name.

Edited March 14 by FritsSikkink

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

Another bad news Brit.

Hope everyone reads the link article guy is a disgusting major drug dealer.

Good luck in Thai prison loser.

 

 

"During the operation, undercover police officers “bought” 12.5 grams of cocaine, 14.7 grams of ketamine, 192 grams of magic mushrooms, 13 grams of LSD, and 9.8 grams of MDMA from Garcia, before promptly arresting him."

 

 

 

 

I know we have all been conditioned that drugs are bad.. .war on drugs etc... 

 

Are those not recreational drugs ??...    i.e. drugs people use to have a good time, much like drinking alcohol ?

 

This is not Heroin or crack-cocaine...     and this guy is hardly a major drug dealer pedalling heroin to children.

 

I'm not defending this guy at all, he's broken the laws and he knew the law.

 

 

What I am questioning is the attitude towards recreational drugs in the first place (not just Thailand, but world wide)...    In another world with more objective attitudes this guy is no more guilty than someone serving a beer... 

 

I know, we are not in that world, but my point is, what authorities have labelled as 'terrible'... is it really that terrible ??? (Coke, LSD, Magic Mushrooms, Ecstasy)...    any worse that going on a drinking binge ?

 

 

 

 

[richard_smith237]

23 minutes ago, Peabody said:

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

13 grams of LSD

Wow. That's at least 250,000 hits of LSD

 

Or its just the usual standard of accuracy of reporting here.... 

[gargamon]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Police, acting on a tip-off that a foreign national was selling drugs

Russians getting rid of the competition... 

[BKKBike09]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Police, acting on a tip-off that a foreign national was selling drugs to tourists in Chiang Mai, have arrested a 48 year old British man.

 

From the linked article: "According to the report, Garcia has admitted selling the drugs to foreign tourists using the Telegram app. He says he purchased all the drugs, with the exception of the magic mushrooms, from a Black man in Chiang Mai, for 800,000 baht."

 

Hmmm. Let's have a stab at who gave the tip-off.

[transam]

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

No, wrong interpretation

It actually says it is a name used in the US originated from German but from another name.

......................Gawd, wish I hadn't bothered now............

 

https://charlies-names.com/en/charly/

[Denim]

Double pointing. Cool.

[Nick Carter icp]

1 hour ago, BKKBike09 said:

 

From the linked article: "According to the report, Garcia has admitted selling the drugs to foreign tourists using the Telegram app. He says he purchased all the drugs, with the exception of the magic mushrooms, from a Black man in Chiang Mai, for 800,000 baht."

 

Hmmm. Let's have a stab at who gave the tip-off.

 

   Do you think that it might be the Black man ?

(Have you had a Black girlfriend before ?)

[ukrules]

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I know, we are not in that world, but my point is, what authorities have labelled as 'terrible'... is it really that terrible ??? (Coke, LSD, Magic Mushrooms, Ecstasy)...    any worse that going on a drinking binge ?

 

Around these parts it's worse than murder, he will be sentenced to more than 20 years in prison which will be reduced to 20 years as it's the maximum sentence allowed.

 

You could go out into the street and start lopping heads off and it's not as serious as this guys charges.

[richard_smith237]

1 minute ago, ukrules said:

Around these parts it's worse than murder, he will be sentenced to more than 20 years in prison which will be reduced to 20 years as it's the maximum sentence allowed.

 

You could go out into the street and start lopping heads off and it's not as serious as this guys charges.

 

Agreed...  Everyone knows...  stay well away from drugs due to the extreme, harsh and barbaric penalties such 'offences' attract. 

 

In the UK a Brit was sentenced to 25 years in prison for having a friends Vape Pen in his car (which contained THC oil)... the penalty is clearly excessive from very angle...   

As are the penalties towards many drugs offenses in Thailand. 

 

How many guys were serving decades for dealing Marijuana which is now suddenly legally and socially acceptable...

 

 

Of course - don't do the crime etc etc..    but my point again, is how out of 'balance' the penalties seem with the actual offence committed. 

 

 

 

[ed strong]

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Agreed...  Everyone knows...  stay well away from drugs due to the extreme, harsh and barbaric penalties such 'offences' attract. 

 

In the UK a Brit was sentenced to 25 years in prison for having a friends Vape Pen in his car (which contained THC oil)... the penalty is clearly excessive from very angle...   

As are the penalties towards many drugs offenses in Thailand. 

 

How many guys were serving decades for dealing Marijuana which is now suddenly legally and socially acceptable...

 

 

Of course - don't do the crime etc etc..    but my point again, is how out of 'balance' the penalties seem with the actual offence committed. 

 

 

 

What are you talking about, you dont get 25 years in the UK for a vape pen with THC lol.

 

Source please!??

[ed strong]

How are you supposed to take laws seriously when the people in charge don't even know what the laws are.

 

There's many thing illegal in Thailand that everyone seems to do, yet do the wrong one of those and you are in prison for 20 years!

[Gottfrid]

So much BS here. Name irrelevant. British national by evidence of passport. He broke the law, that seems to be par for British people in Thailand, so now he pay the price. Good for him!

[still kicking]

9 hours ago, transam said:

Charly Garcia, sounds like German mafia, not British.........😂

Garcia is Spanish