South African woman nabbed with 2kg of 'ice' worth Bt6 million

BANGKOK, June 20 - A South African woman was detained at Thailand's Suvarnabhumi International Airport with two kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as 'ice,' worth Bt6 million (US$200,000).

Adelina Ntshebleng was arrested as the airport's narcotics suppression police had been alerted to possible drug smuggling from Benin to Cambodia via Thailand’s main airport.

Police found the ‘ice" as they searched the suspect's baggage.

Ms Adelina confessed that she was hired by a Cambodian dealer to smuggle crystal meth into his country and was to be paid Bt200,000 (US$6,670) once the work was done.

Thai police initially charged her with possessing drugs for sale and smuggling illicit drugs into the kingdom. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2012-06-20

Play with fire...etc.

Never ending line of fools out there

Thai police arrest S. African for drug smuggling

Bangkok, June 20, 2012 (AFP) - A South African woman has been arrested at Bangkok airport attempting to smuggle two kilogrammes (4.4 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine, Thai police said Wednesday.

Narcotics police acting on a tip-off stopped Adelina Ntshebleng Lephutha Ononiwu, 31, at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Monday after she arrived from the Kenyan capital and was waiting for an onward flight to Cambodia.

Police found the drugs -- also known as "ice" -- in three bags hidden in a secret compartment in her luggage, they said. The haul has a street value of $80,000 in Thailand.

"She said she was hired by a Nigerian man to deliver the luggage to Phnom Penh," Colonel Pornchai Charoenwong of the Narcotic Suppression Bureau said.

"He paid her 24,000 baht ($760) and said she will get a further 200,000 baht when the job was completed," he said, adding she started her journey in Benin, West Africa.

Ononiwu was charged with drug trafficking, which carries a death sentence in Thailand, although executions are rarely sanctioned.

Thailand, along with other countries in the region, has seen a marked increase in seizures of methamphetamine as the world opiate trade declines.

A Malaysian woman was arrested on June 6 at the airport with 4.8 kilos of crystal methamphetamine after she arrived from Benin, one of the largest seizures of the drug from an individual smuggler.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2012-06-20

They should sell it and fix the runways with a reputable construction company.

Never ending line of fools out there

Yes there seems to be to be 1-2 a week arrested these days. Not sure where they are going to keep all these people with life sentences at the rate they are being arrested.

Heck don't bother keeping them. Just give them a death sentence.

Not sure why the Cambodians don't just buy it from the source in Thailand, or why they don't set up a lab there in Cambodia. A little tea money would probably be cheaper than the fee paid to the mules. Keep the jobs local. ( All said tongue in cheek)

"She said she was hired by a Nigerian man to deliver the luggage to Phnom Penh," Colonel Pornchai Charoenwong of the Narcotic Suppression Bureau said."

A Nigerian involved. What a big surprise

Heck don't bother keeping them. Just give them a death sentence.

Ah......such is the compassion and understanding of human frailty.

You have no idea what drove her to this and her life is now destroyed.

Perhaps deeper thought of the overall problem is deserved.

Another stupid mule. Somm nam na

Heck don't bother keeping them. Just give them a death sentence.

Ah......such is the compassion and understanding of human frailty.

You have no idea what drove her to this and her life is now destroyed.

Perhaps deeper thought of the overall problem is deserved.

Oh go with yer Phil.

She knew what she was doing, and she was doing it for money. Simple as.

Do the time.....

-mel...

I think we are aware she was doing it for money. Many people are desperate and will do anything to help their family survive. A deeper understanding of the problem would be in everyone's best interests.

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I think we are aware she was doing it for money. Many people are desperate and will do anything to help their family survive. A deeper understanding of the problem would be in everyone's best interests.

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A deeper understanding of drug trafficking is needed? Why?

There are easier and better ways to feed your family, even if you are desperate.

Getting of your ass and getting a regular job, no matter how measly it might be considered, is a start.

1 billion others do it!

-mel.

I think we are aware she was doing it for money. Many people are desperate and will do anything to help their family survive. A deeper understanding of the problem would be in everyone's best interests.

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A deeper understanding of drug trafficking is needed? Why?

There are easier and better ways to feed your family, even if you are desperate.

Getting of your ass and getting a regular job, no matter how measly it might be considered, is a start.

1 billion others do it!

-mel.

Yes, same in any country on earth, those who want money for nothing perhaps will take the risk, BUT, if the risk is against them, then pay the price, a gamble, and most gamblers lose in the end.

How many times do we read about rich folk who take the risk and end up in prison with millions in the bank ?. Folk do what they want to do BUT don't come to working folk for sympathy.

The average monthly income for employed persons in Benin is less than US$50, according to 2007 World Bank data (OLD data I know, but lets assume it's 50 USD)

SO 6,670USD is like 11 years worth of salary. . . . . I can understand her risk a little better when you can pull in 10+ years of salary on one trip.

I hate that drug, never tried it and never will. Ruins many people's lives and many families. I wouldn't wish that addiction on my worst enemy.

The average monthly income for employed persons in Benin is less than US$50, according to 2007 World Bank data (OLD data I know, but lets assume it's 50 USD)

SO 6,670USD is like 11 years worth of salary. . . . . I can understand her risk a little better when you can pull in 10+ years of salary on one trip.

I hate that drug, never tried it and never will. Ruins many people's lives and many families. I wouldn't wish that addiction on my worst enemy.

AND THERE are 9 Million people in Benin, living an honest life style.

Does she expect sympathy for the salary you quote, or do the 9 million others?

She knew what her risks were, and she knew what drugs were.

Sorry, but little empathy and understanding is needed here.

She took on the task, and she failed.

Good Riddance!

-mel. (and good riddance to the drugs found, that would have continued to support drug problems wherever they were destined for)

They should sell it and fix the runways with a reputable construction company.

Haha Like it..That reminds me,a few months ago me and my wife where driving along Sukhumvit road (Laemchabang) And i said "Has it been 2000 years since these roads where repaired" I was serious, she however found it funny.. Must be the way i talk ;-)

You would of thought by now that everyone knows , "Bring drugs into Thailand you will die" Is it worth it, for 100.000 THB..How desperate she must of been to value her life for this figure..

Heck don't bother keeping them. Just give them a death sentence.

Ah......such is the compassion and understanding of human frailty.

You have no idea what drove her to this and her life is now destroyed.

Perhaps deeper thought of the overall problem is deserved.

Oh go with yer Phil.

She knew what she was doing, and she was doing it for money. Simple as.

Do the time.....

-mel...

@Mel Your using the words of a Scouser there mate..Are you a liverpool fella like me??

The average monthly income for employed persons in Benin is less than US$50, according to 2007 World Bank data (OLD data I know, but lets assume it's 50 USD)

SO 6,670USD is like 11 years worth of salary. . . . . I can understand her risk a little better when you can pull in 10+ years of salary on one trip.

I hate that drug, never tried it and never will. Ruins many people's lives and many families. I wouldn't wish that addiction on my worst enemy.

AND THERE are 9 Million people in Benin, living an honest life style.

Does she expect sympathy for the salary you quote, or do the 9 million others?

She knew what her risks were, and she knew what drugs were.

Sorry, but little empathy and understanding is needed here.

She took on the task, and she failed.

Good Riddance!

-mel. (and good riddance to the drugs found, that would have continued to support drug problems wherever they were destined for)

And what revelvance is the monthly salary in Benin or the number of people living there ?.....The woman concerned is South African....Although South African and Benin may both be on the same continent...they are not the same place....of course you boys knew that ...didnt you ?..... ....so we either have a problem with geography or English comprehension skills...not sure which...

"SO 6,670USD is like 11 years worth of salary".....Not in South Africa it aint...

so 2 questions

1) in all these cases, somebody has ' tiped ' them off, who??

2) why only stop at the mule, and not go for higher up the food chain, like they did in Bali ?

Never ending line of fools out there

+1

I think we are aware she was doing it for money. Many people are desperate and will do anything to help their family survive. A deeper understanding of the problem would be in everyone's best interests.

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No, quite the opposite.

A few bullets to the head of these Traffickers may show the rest of the donkeys that Thailand is serious.

No understanding necessary.

Heck don't bother keeping them. Just give them a death sentence.

Ah......such is the compassion and understanding of human frailty.

You have no idea what drove her to this and her life is now destroyed.

Perhaps deeper thought of the overall problem is deserved.

Oh go with yer Phil.

She knew what she was doing, and she was doing it for money. Simple as.

Do the time.....

-mel...

@Mel Your using the words of a Scouser there mate..Are you a liverpool fella like me??

No way laar.... I never went to Blackler's grotto wid me mam.... or Druid's cross, an Rotheram's was ne'r in me 'eart.

Never lost me ollies down da grid, or read the Echo with a pan o' scouse.

Giv me a butty, near Ford Cemetary, an' we'll talk about Smithie Rd.

Scouser? Meeee? 555

Went to da Eddie's me, wid that stupd purple blazer, on Queen's Drive.

-mel.

If she had of slipped through and did not get caught, How many other Lives would be ruined?

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The average monthly income for employed persons in Benin is less than US$50, according to 2007 World Bank data (OLD data I know, but lets assume it's 50 USD)

SO 6,670USD is like 11 years worth of salary. . . . . I can understand her risk a little better when you can pull in 10+ years of salary on one trip.

I hate that drug, never tried it and never will. Ruins many people's lives and many families. I wouldn't wish that addiction on my worst enemy.

AND THERE are 9 Million people in Benin, living an honest life style.

Does she expect sympathy for the salary you quote, or do the 9 million others?

She knew what her risks were, and she knew what drugs were.

Sorry, but little empathy and understanding is needed here.

She took on the task, and she failed.

Good Riddance!

-mel. (and good riddance to the drugs found, that would have continued to support drug problems wherever they were destined for)

And what revelvance is the monthly salary in Benin or the number of people living there ?.....The woman concerned is South African....Although South African and Benin may both be on the same continent...they are not the same place....of course you boys knew that ...didnt you ?..... ....so we either have a problem with geography or English comprehension skills...not sure which...

"SO 6,670USD is like 11 years worth of salary".....Not in South Africa it aint...

IF - Kipling....

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

-mel.

add some chem to give it bad side effects and put it back on the street.

I see this is the second woman in a couple of months from South Africa. There was another one who was sentenced yesterday to 15 yrs for having stashed 600 grams of cocaine is her false dreadlocks. Her intial sentence was 30 yrs but because she pleaded guilty it has now been dropped to 15 yrs.