British tourist arrested with cocaine hidden in passport

[tandor]

3 hours ago, bob smith said:

I used to bang half gram lines for fun!

 

what an idiot. he should have gone to the bog on his flight and finished it off before he landed!

 

1st class muppet.

 

bob.

he heard that LINE was popular in Thailand

[cnx101]

3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

What an informative story............... Sounds crazy to me in his Passport?

Sounds fishy to me.

Maybe it was a bribe to get a long visa, which he will get for sure.

[Cabradelmar]

Enjoy your extended stay in Thailand #dolt

[richard_smith237]

3 hours ago, 2long said:

Five posts so far and none of them Brit bashing!

Maybe the usual suspects are still in bed with their long time katoeys from a Friday night on the sauce! 😉🤭

 

Media such as this is pure catnip to posters such as Goat & Gottfrid…

 

Amazibg that they have missed this opportunity to Brit-bash.,

 

… they must be on suspension - I always figured they’d have an ‘alert’ set for any mention of a Brit (in much the same manner as KhunLA’s trigger finger to anything EV related !!) 

[john donson]

bust of the year

 

nevermind 100 million yaba pills coming in every day

 

generals love their commission

[JackGats]

I guess he lost sight of the 0.42 grams. A passport is the last place on Earth to hide drugs since it gets checked at the airport.

[torturedsole]

2 hours ago, lemonjelly said:

What’s with the UK barbers? All the young Brit lads I see nowadays have awful hairstyles 

The Turkish barbers only learned one style.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

An immigration officer discovered a small plastic bag filled with white powder in Swain’s passport during routine checks for visa stamping.

Don't you just hate it when that happens, at the arrivals hall too, not on the way out....

[Ironmike]

And here we were thinking only the Russians are the stupid ones then this s+it for brains shows up enjoy the Hilton baby bye bye

[Grumpy one]

Seems what little grey matter he had was burnt up by white powder.

No doubt someone somewhere may feel sorry for him.

Most will thank him, myself included for giving us a good laugh.

[JeffersLos]

3 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Thats like taking coal to Newcastle, bring that here 

 

You think cocaine is made in Thailand? 

[newbee2022]

3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

What an informative story............... Sounds crazy to me in his Passport?

Sounds fishy to me.

Look how he looks...

Intelligent? Not the brightest candle on the cake I'd say.🥳

[JeffersLos]

3 hours ago, 2long said:

Five posts so far and none of them Brit bashing!

 

Thankfully he isn't smiling and my iPhone screen is still unshattered. 

[transam]

22 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Passport isn’t checked in any detail in the UK, just show the ID page at security.

Or the Checkin staff looking for a passport.

 

I agree with the idea that it slipped into the pages when he put it in his pocket or a pouch in his carry on. 
 

 

As everyone else is commenting- this is obviously a remarkably daft thing to do. 

A passport is opened at any airport by staff, where anything in it will fall out.

 

But, would you put dope in your passport which can be asked for at any time, would you put dope in your pocket when we know airports do have sniffer dogs. 

 

Perhaps he wore those jeans the night before, and forgot about last night's dope session...🤪 

[Fancyzancy]

This guy is brilliant.  I mean who would think to hide something in your passport. Just brilliant...

[Bobthegimp]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

 

29-year-old Jamie Louis Swain from Enfield, North London, could face up to twenty years in a Thai prison after reportedly being caught with cocaine hidden in his passport. Swain was arrested at Phuket International Airport on his arrival from an Etihad Airways flight on Thursday night. 

 

An immigration officer discovered a small plastic bag filled with white powder in Swain’s passport during routine checks for visa stamping. Authorities confirmed the substance was 0.42 grams of cocaine. Swain's questionable reaction to the discovery led to a further search of his luggage.

 

Swain was charged with importing and possessing category II narcotics, namely cocaine, a violation of Thailand's Narcotics Act. This crime could lead to a maximum sentence of 20 years to life in jail, along with a fine between 2,000,000 – 5,000,000 Baht (£43,000 to £108,000).

 

In addition to this, cocaine possession is punishable with up to five years or up to a 100,000 Baht (£2,000) fine in Thailand. Swain's case has been turned over to Sakhu Police Station for further legal action.

 

Picture courtesy of Thai Examiner

 

-- 2024-05-04

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His hairstylist should get twice that sentence.

[John Drake]

Now, does that look like the sort of guy who'd hide cocaine in his passport?

[saintdomingo]

1 hour ago, rwill said:

He probably did not put in his passport on purpose.  More likely he put his passport back where the sachet was in his bag and it slipped between the pages without him knowing it.

Or put it there to take later on the flight, thinking he wouldn't forget about it then fell asleep and did just that.

[saintdomingo]

4 minutes ago, Bobthegimp said:

 

His hairstylist should get twice that sentence.

It suits the face that says I'm being done for smuggling cocaine into Thailand.

[transam]

3 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Now, does that look like the sort of guy who'd hide cocaine in his passport?

Eeeeeer, now that is a good question........

[NORDO]

E-MC2 can be a confusing and complicated equation.    However, the cocaine equation in Asia is not complicated.   What do these youngsters use for a thought process.   

 

Don’t drop the soap!

[Jai Dee]

A crude troll post has been removed for violating our Community Standards.

[Edwin Cameron]

How hard up for news are you guy's, not even a gram and your making the guy out to be "El Chapo"get a set,you really need them..!

[Will B Good]

From a world of ecstasy......to a world of pain.....yin and yang 

[IamNoone88]

Phuket .. attracts the one born every minute. Quality tourists.

[osr29555]

3 hours ago, smedly said:

Plausible 

Also, according to his friend´s Reddit-post, he also went through Dubai with this passport and he was apparently happy they didn´t notice it.

[torturedsole]

It's kind of easy for the BiB to spot to wrong 'uns.

 

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, smedly said:

who puts a small bag of illegal drugs in the pages of their passport and then hands it to immigration police at an airport ....................... think about it - seriously

...Professor Jamie Swain does.

[natway09]

I must be missing something here ??

[crazykopite]

He must of been 3 sheets to the wind to place it in his passport or was he desperate to spend the next 5/10 years on free B&B at the Bangkok Hilton