Thai Police Claim Arrest Of Israeli Drug Kingpin In Roundup

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Police claim arrest of drug kingpin in roundup

A 43-year-old Israeli man known to police as the number one drug dealer in the Provincial Police Region 2 jurisdiction has been arrested. Five other alleged accomplices in Chanthaburi and Bangkok's Bang Na area have also been taken into custody, a senior police officer said Tuesday.

Narcotics Suppression Bureau chief Atithep Panjamanont said suspect Israel Chrispin was arrested under a warrant for dealing drugs at a Muang Chanthaburi house on Sunday - after he allegedly delivered cocaine to undercover police in a sting operation on May 26.

Following Chrispin's arrest, five accomplices were also taken in: Nigerian Chuk Yumeca Enslem, 22, along with 150 ecstasy tablets; Rattana Nookham, 20; Zambian Casonco Mende Swana, 26, with 100.5 grams of crystal meth; Nigerian man Ekene Frank Ohasulink, 32, and Sudawan Chaiya, 36, with 32.7 gm of cocaine allegedly in their possession.

-- The Nation 2010-12-07

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Police capture drug gang in Chanthaburi; drug courier at Suvarnabhumi

BANGKOK, Dec 7 – The police on Tuesday arrested an Israeli national drug dealer and his gang members selling drug to tourists and a Kenyan drug trafficker was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Yisrael Krispin, 43, an Israeli national was apprehended in a housing estate in the eastern province of Chanthaburi. The police seized a car, a bank account with a Bt750,000 (US$25,000) balance and 100,000 Yen (US$1,200) in cash.

The arrest of Mr Krispin led to arrests of additional six gang members holding 150 ecstasy pills, 32 grammes of cocaine and 100 grammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice.

Mr Krispin is wanted by the Thai authorities as a major drug dealer selling ecstasy pills, cocaine and ice to foreign tourists at entertainment venues in Chonburi, Trat and Bangkok, and he stayed at a hideout in Chantaburi. Arrest warrants were issued for him in seven drug-related cases.

In another case related to drug trafficking, Jill Jane Awour Ligawa, a Kenyan, was arrested by drug suppression police at Suvarnabhumi Airport on her arrival from Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa by Ethiopian Airlines. The police found three bags of ice weighing three kilogrammes in total in her luggage.

She confessed to drug trafficking, claiming an African man hired her to carry the drugs from Mali to Ethiopia before delivering it to a drug dealer in Thailand. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2010-12-07

[supaprik]

good work, more trash off the streets

[SergeiY]

Crime does not know nationality and no-one is forced to take drugs.

edit to add PS

PS: Haters gonna hate.

Edited December 7, 2010 by SergeiY

[kuffki]

I would of thought KINGPIN would have little more then 750 000 in the bank not to mention few million in the house.

150 pills with few hundred grams of everything else is hardly the "big time" or the kingpin

[Bakseedaa]

I would of thought KINGPIN would have little more then 750 000 in the bank not to mention few million in the house.

150 pills with few hundred grams of everything else is hardly the "big time" or the kingpin

They should have told the police that the drugs were for use in making Porn movies... they would have got bail and a pat on the back for aiding Thai tourism..!!!

[Huey]

Good to see them behind bars were they all belong.

[asiawatcher]

Agree with the comment about the Israeli 'Kingpin". Of course any Kingpin does not deliver the drugs and certainly has more than 750,000 Baht. Usual blown out of proportion Thai journalism.

[beejoir]

Sounds like he turned into a rat pretty dam_n quick, something tell's me he'll get a serious kicking inside if he didn't do a good enough deal to see him free.

[ukrules]

By the looks of it this guy is small fry, nothing more than a street level dealer to end users.

Of course in Thailand this is by far the most (or second most) heinous of all the crimes in the statute books.

[Nisa]

If he was selling only to tourists, as claimed in the article, I have to wonder how the police discovered his activities since farangs are less likely to admit anything without a lawyer. And even if they did catch one farang who snitched ... did the suspected drug dealer keep a ledger of all his clients name? Point being I rarely see a news report where a local is involved in doing or selling drugs or any kind of sexual crime. I think Thailand would be crime free if not for us tourists.