Police seize Bt70 million in illegal drugs in two cases

BANGKOK, Sept 26 – Thai authorities have arrested five suspected drug traffickers and seized some 300,000 methamphetamine pills valued at about Bt70 million (US$ 2.3 million) in two separate cases on Monday.

In the first case, four suspected drug syndicate members from the North, led by a former military conscript, were arrested at a supermarket in Nakhon Pathom’s Sampran district, about 50 km west of Bangkok.

The detaines are Veerasak Wooncharoen, Aekachai Wooncharoen, Prachuap Huayhongthong and Thanat Kanlaya.

The police confiscated 135,800 methamphetamine pills with an estimated value of Bt40 million (about US$1.3 million).

Undercover police posing as customers sought to buy the illicit drug after learning of an illegal drug delivery in Nakhon Pathom.

According to the investigation, the shipment was smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar through Chiang Rai’s Chiang Saen district before being distributed to dealers in Bangkok and surrounding areas.

Each order was made by telephone, with phone numbers being changed each time to obstruct police investigation.

Mr Veerasak was formerly in a border patrol unit on the Mekong River and his girlfriend from Myanmar is alleged to have convinced him to join the drug syndicate. He told the authorities he has been involved in carrying drugs three times and received Bt30,000 each time. He was charged with possession of illegal drugs for sale.

In another case, police seized 166,000 methamphetamine pills with an estimated street value of Bt32 million (US$1 million) at a bus terminal in Bangkok’s Taling Chan district.

The drug seizure followed a tip from a bus employee about a suspicious man in his 30’s with luggage intent to travel by a Bangkok-Nakhon Si Thammarat bus.

The transit employee said the traveler behaved suspiciously, leaving his bag and running away when asked to show his bus ticket and luggage deposit record.

Taling Chan police were called to investigate and found the methamphetamine in his luggage.

Police presumed that the drug was to be delivered to drug dealers in the southern region.

According to Pol Lt Gen Chakthip Chaichinda, Metropolitan police chief, an arrest warrant currently was out for a suspect as surveillance cameras installed in the terminal captured his image.

He was charged with possessing illicit drugs for sale. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2011-09-26

You can have an arrest warrant for a person whose name is unknown? Words fail me.

Looks like they are taking the cream off the top at present how will it go when only the big boys are left.

You can have an arrest warrant for a person whose name is unknown? Words fail me.

In the states it is called a John Doe warrant, in Thailand it is a Somchai watch-a-me warrant.

not only the fifth, unknown dealer, has arrest warrant, but he already was charged and even counted as an arrested one.

thai maths

"Thai authorities have arrested five suspected drug traffickers ... The detaines are Veerasak Wooncharoen, Aekachai Wooncharoen, Prachuap Huayhongthong and Thanat Kanlaya.... an arrest warrant currently was out for a suspect as surveillance cameras installed in the terminal captured his image. He was charged with possessing illicit drugs for sale"

You can have an arrest warrant for a person whose name is unknown? Words fail me.

TIT

"his girlfriend from Myanmar is alleged to have convinced him to join the drug syndicate"

A genuine perfect Thai CANNOT be involved in something illegal unless a filthy disgusting stranger lures him in the wrong way.

The foreign (and Thai?) prisoners get death penalty for 1000 pills. What can happen to someone with 166,000 pills?

The foreign (and Thai?) prisoners get death penalty for 1000 pills. What can happen to someone with 166,000 pills?

If they accept the charge they will get half sentence so 12-15 years if they fight and lose then you are correct they will get a minimum of life possibly death if charges with importation.

This is why so many people when arrested plead their guilt it cuts their jail time in half which is good as there is no parole here.

I wonder how much will get destroyed and how much will make it back on the streets. you say cynical, yep.

I wonder how much will get destroyed and how much will make it back on the streets. you say cynical, yep.

and rightly so, i wonder the same thing.

How do you get half a death penalty?

What happened to the money they confiscated.?

How do you get half a death penalty?

A death penalty sentence is almost always reduced to life on appeal so 25 years.