Singer Charged : ‘joyce’ Arrested In Drug Sting

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Triumphs Kingdom star, 4 others nabbed with over 4,000 methamphetamine pills

Singer Pornpun “Joyce Triumphs Kingdom” Ratanamethanont was arrested along with four other suspects, including her boyfriend, for possession of methamphetamine pills, police announced at a press conference yesterday.

During a sting operation at 11.30pm on Tuesday, police arrested the 24-year-old Joyce and her boyfriend, Jittapat Sangkhasuwan, 28, at Soi Ngamwongwan 8, seizing 300 methamphetamine tablets, said deputy commissioner Colonel Wichai Sangpraphai. The two confessed and police found a further 4,040 methamphetamine tablets in Jittapat’s home.

Tuesday afternoon, Krit Kasemwiriyakul, 31, was arrested for possession of 50 methamphetamine tablets, Wichai said. Krit led police later that day to Jesadaporn Srijariya, 21, and Damrongsak Chernsuk, 30, from whom he said he had received the drugs. Both were arrested. Jesadaporn then told police that Joyce and Jittapat had been the suppliers of the pills: the two were nabbed soon after.

Joyce told police that she and her partner had conducted only three drug deliveries and that she was using drugs herself to relieve intense stress over family problems, Wichai said. Jittapat said he’d met Joyce over a year ago and that she had been an accomplice on two of the three drug deliveries to which the couple had confessed, with each delivery including about 200 tablets.

At the press conference, Joyce, who appeared to be in distress, wouldn’t answer reporters’ questions. Jittapat proved somewhat more forthcoming before the two were led away by police.

Joyce and her friend Surattanawee “Bow” Suvipornsang were members of the girl duo Triumphs Kingdom until the band broke up in 2001. Joyce was scheduled to take the stage again at her label Bakery Music’s 10th anniversary “B-Day Bakery Music Independent Day” concert on December 10.

A Bakery Music public relations official told reporters that company executives had not yet been informed of the arrest. The official did not know whether the company would hold a press conference on the issue given that Joyce was no longer its employee. Yet if Joyce were to be charged by police, the official said, she would definitely be excluded from the upcoming concert as well as cut from the record company’s promotional TV programme “Chan Chao Khong” to air next Monday.

Joyce is the second singer to have been arrested for drug-related offences this year. Last May Worayos Boonthongnum, 23, former singer of the band Power Pat, was arrested for selling ecstasy pills.

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CRIME / DRUG TRAFFICKING

Traffickers, former singer arrested

POST REPORTERS

Pornpan: Arrested on durg charges

Eight cross-border drug traffickers have been arrested and 463 kilogrammes of heroin seized as a result of cooperation between Thai and Chinese drug fighters.

The eight, including gang leader Liu Yi Gang, were arrested in September and October in Bangkok and China's southwestern province of Yunnan.

Their arrests resulted from cooperation between the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) and its Chinese counterpart, said ONCB secretary-general Krisna Polananta yesterday. The gang had been operating from Yunnan and Bangkok for a long time, he said.

Pol Lt-Gen Krisna said Chinese and Thai drug authorities worked together to track down Liu and his gang members. In late September Chinese police busted three of Liu's drug networks in Yunnan. They seized 463kg of heroin and more than 10 million baht worth of assets from the networks.

Liu, who had set up his base in Bangkok, was arrested along with some of his men in late October and returned to Yunnan.

Earlier, Thai and Chinese authorities had also worked together to suppress transnational drug trafficking, resulting in the seizure of 345kg of heroin in April 2002 and the arrest of 17 suspects in China, Burma and Thailand, said Pol Lt-Gen Krisna.

A former singer and her boyfriend were arrested in Bangkok yesterday on drug trafficking charges.

Police said Pornpan Rattanamethanont, 24, and her boyfriend Kittipat Sangsuwan, 28, were arrested as they were about to hand 300 speed pills to undercover police posing as buyers in the Ngam Wongwan area.

Ms Pornpan was once known as Joyce of the Triumph Kingdom pop dance duo group, now disbanded.

Police said Ms Pornparn and her boy-friend were implicated by two drug suspects arrested earlier with 80 speed pills in their possession at an apartment in Din Daeng district.

Damrongsak Charoensuk, 30, and Jessadaporn Srijariya, 21, told police the pills were supplied to them by the ex-singer and her boyfriend.

Police also seized 3,740 speed pills from Mr Kittipat's house in Nonthaburi.

In another drugs case, a man and his sister-in-law were arrested on Tuesday night while delivering about 50kg of marijuana to undercover police in Bang Khen district.

The suspects, Saroj (surname not available) and sister-in-law Saijai Poonsawat were charged with possessing marijuana with intent to sell.

Police also seized another 250kg of marijuana kept by the suspects at a rented house in Soi Ramkhamhaeng 12. The suspects said they had bought the marijuana from a supplier in Nakhon Ratchasima at 4,000 baht a kilogramme, to be sold at 7,000 baht a kilogramme.

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mm...

[Ajarn]

After ITV reported this story yesterday, they went on to list all the Thai singers and actors who've been busted in the last few years. Quite a few.....

[sua yai]

Unless I've got my figures wrong, that's around 1.60 UK, an ounce.

As always, someone's making a huge profit.

[honeyen]

The two confessed and police found a further 4,040 methamphetamine tablets in Jittapat’s home.

Police also seized another 250kg of marijuana kept by the suspects at a rented house in Soi Ramkhamhaeng 12.

What would be the penalty for each of the above?

[chingy_]

anything with drug related is death, so don't do it

[meemiathai]

anything with drug related is death, so don't do it

How long is this STUPID law going to stay?

[Nam Kao]

Chingy, As Clint would say:

HANG EM HIGH

[raybkk]

You wont hear from them again untill the next concert.................. and than everybody wonders... wheren't they arrested and charged on having drugs intended for sale?! Wow they are free so let us do it too!

Wanna buy some?! Dont worry, I am a super star.

[Noodles]

MONEY SPEAKS!!!!