Drug dealers nabbed in nationwide swoop

The Nation on Sunday October 14, 2012 1:00 am

BANGKOK: -- Many drug dealers were arrested in different parts of the country over the past two days with thousands of yaba (methamphetamine) tablets seized.

Four were arrested in Loei. Police seized more than 10,000 yaba pills from them. They had smuggled in the drug from a neighbouring country.

Three people from a drug gang were arrested in Nakhon Si Thammarat. Police seized 50 yaba tablets from them. They confessed that they used an M16 and other types of guns to threaten and kill their drug buyers when they collected money from them.

Four people who were drug-selling network of a drug prisoner in Chiang Rai were nabbed and 8,000 yaba tablets and 100 grams of ice (crystal meth) were seized.

A member of a tambon administrative organisation in Chiang Rai was held for selling yaba to a drug network in Udon Thani.

In Kalasin, six drug dealers were nabbed with more than 2,000 yaba pills. A Kalasin municipality officer was among them.

-- The Nation 2012-10-14

These drugs busts will only be interesting when they start dragging out the Mr. Bigs up the food chain. We should be seeing them rounded up, cuffed, perp walked, tried and sentenced or in rare cases found innocent. But it should be the big shots.

It's great that they are getting these young punks off the street, but nailing the big men and making it newsworthy will validate that they mean business. Instead of 15 plus police cashing in on photo ops, they should be perp walking hand cuffed big men.

Yeah.

Let's see a real Mr. Big nabbed and really punished. Until then, and and .

When the arrests a made known, everyone seems to be a dealer. The terms mules, users, addicts, etc and their arrest, seem to be result of all of the BIB's effort.

The reported gazillions of baht worth of drugs being intercepted, have an orgin, someone behind it, as does the transport , and distribution system. RThere are huge sums of money being moved in this circle as well as the other illegal enterprises. You have to look before you can find the sources/kingpins.

These guys dont look like they were very high up at all, as stated above they need to start moving up ladder and getting the bosses.

10000 pills is nothing.

But some will be coming down pretty hard this week ,

untill they find the next pusher ,

who ratted on his compatition and gets to step up this week and make a killing ,

untill the next ridden with envy rat's him out and steps up ...on and on and on .

And over the years not one big wig .

Sad and sus.

Thai government should legalize marihuana, after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

Yeah.

Let's see a real Mr. Big nabbed and really punished. Until then, and and .

Mr big is already locked up and running things from jail - the authorities inability to to deal with it is the real issue, it's seems the best and safest place to run the drug gangs from is in a Thai Jail - how <<Snip!>> up is that

As long as there is a demand there will be suppliers that is the nature of any kind of business. You can put who ever you want in jail it is still not going to make the problem go away.

Yeah.

Let's see a real Mr. Big nabbed and really punished. Until then, and and .

Mr big is already locked up and running things from jail - the authorities inability to to deal with it is the real issue, it's seems the best and safest place to run the drug gangs from is in a Thai Jail - how <<Snip!>> up is that

Tell us how you know this, do excuse my ignorance.

are you serious - do some research, most of your answer you will find right here on TV

Thai government should legalize marihuana, after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

As I have stated before the government should legalize yaba, as it was sold in stores up until about 20 years ago, Horse Brand with a picture of a horse. Just as now they are making Thai viagara, due to competition from counterfeits from Cambodia, India and Thailand.. Ya Ba is socially acceptable in this country marijuana and heroin are not.

Thai government should legalize marihuana, after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

Good one. It was shiht in the 60s I wonder what it was thousands of years ago.

after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

That, I didn't know.

Actually the head line should read police create more job openings.

Of course by the time the article got to the presses the positions were filled.

I believe in freedom of speech to a point. What the Government should do to improve their image is stop publicizing every satong anny druggies arrest and concentrate on the manufacturers and the people who control the manufacture and distribution. The average Thai and expat has no idea of the size of the problem. They think these little two bit busts are making a difference when in reality they are just creating job opportunities and if they are not filled quickly prices go up and crime to get the money to pay for them goes up.

Take out the manufacturing plants and the trade will diminish exponentially. These guys are just turkeys getting caught. It solves nothing really.

Thai government should legalize marihuana, after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

As I have stated before the government should legalize yaba, as it was sold in stores up until about 20 years ago, Horse Brand with a picture of a horse. Just as now they are making Thai viagara, due to competition from counterfeits from Cambodia, India and Thailand.. Ya Ba is socially acceptable in this country marijuana and heroin are not.

Yaba, Heroine anc Cannabis shall not be in the same group...... Why not legalise all drugs and let some people make some mistakes legally and taxed?

after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

That, I didn't know.

Me neither..... Would like the fact if link provided......

Why not legalise all drugs and let some people make some mistakes legally and taxed?

Because in the case of yaabaa and yaa ice those 'mistakes' are often violent and dangerous to others.

The culture of taking yaabaa to keep oneself awake at the wheel of a motor vehicle is gradually being eradicated.

The last thing Thailand needs is for some people to think it is somewhat acceptable to consume this dangerous drug again.

after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

That, I didn't know.

Me neither..... Would like the fact if link provided......

The fifth precept is not to consume alcohol or drugs.

Why not legalise all drugs and let some people make some mistakes legally and taxed?

Because in the case of yaabaa and yaa ice those 'mistakes' are often violent and dangerous to others.

The culture of taking yaabaa to keep oneself awake at the wheel of a motor vehicle is gradually being eradicated.

The last thing Thailand needs is for some people to think it is somewhat acceptable to consume this dangerous drug again.

And your source that taking yaba to stay awake at the wheel is some what disappearing is what?

Before people post they might want to take a look at Portigual's approach to the drug situation. Al though they still have a problem the cost of policing crimes committed to procure drugs is decreased as well as the use of drugs.

Have a look at it. It is by no means the accepted practice in the rest of the worls but it is one that is showing positive results.

Where is Mr. Big? My guess is that he is still living it up somewhere and not too worried about the minnows caught in the net.

after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

That, I didn't know.

Me neither..... Would like the fact if link provided......

The fifth precept is not to consume alcohol or drugs.

I would believe that at the time of the Lord B, cannabis was not categorize as a drug..... Barely a plant to chew on, relieving pain, headaches.....

Why not legalise all drugs and let some people make some mistakes legally and taxed?

Because in the case of yaabaa and yaa ice those 'mistakes' are often violent and dangerous to others.

The culture of taking yaabaa to keep oneself awake at the wheel of a motor vehicle is gradually being eradicated.

The last thing Thailand needs is for some people to think it is somewhat acceptable to consume this dangerous drug again.

And your source that taking yaba to stay awake at the wheel is some what disappearing is what?

Before people post they might want to take a look at Portigual's approach to the drug situation. Al though they still have a problem the cost of policing crimes committed to procure drugs is decreased as well as the use of drugs.

Have a look at it. It is by no means the accepted practice in the rest of the worls but it is one that is showing positive results.

Agree with you Dolly but "farang talk" don't need no source

This is SOP in Thailand simply to kull the competition so that big business can run unterupted as usual. Anyone who thinks that the current arrests are in the public intrest or in the intrest of overal drug suppresion is living in a world of their own.

The drug trade is far too lucrative to be abolished so it is naturaly in the hands of those who can effect control and from time to time they serve up the minnows to influence this control and dupe the public

after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

That, I didn't know.

Me neither..... Would like the fact if link provided......

Before becoming the Buddha, Lord Buddha was a Sadhu, and for Sadhus, cannabis is a sacrament.

Thai government should legalize marihuana, after all even Lord Buddha cosumed cannabis

As I have stated before the government should legalize yaba, as it was sold in stores up until about 20 years ago, Horse Brand with a picture of a horse. Just as now they are making Thai viagara, due to competition from counterfeits from Cambodia, India and Thailand.. Ya Ba is socially acceptable in this country marijuana and heroin are not.

Yaba, Heroine anc Cannabis shall not be in the same group...... Why not legalise all drugs and let some people make some mistakes legally and taxed?

I also believe that cannabis should not be in the same group, cannabis is not addictive(only a very small number of people develope an addiction to it) is not so harmful to your body as alcohol, tabacco and all the others drugs that beside destroying your body do give you an addiction, cannabis doesn't make people become agressive, and many other good sings

Oh somebody who did not paid his/here tea-money on time now got a warning?

I would believe that at the time of the Lord B, cannabis was not categorize as a drug..... Barely a plant to chew on, relieving pain, headaches.....

In Buddhism, the Fifth Precept is to "abstain from wines, liquors and intoxicants that cause heedlessness." Cannabis and some other psychoactive plants are specifically prescribed in the Mahākāla Tantra for medicinal purposes. However, Tantra is an esoteric teaching of Hinduism and Buddhism not generally accepted by most other forms of these religions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_spiritual_use_of_cannabis

They confessed that they used an M16 and other types of guns to threaten and kill their drug buyers when they collected money from them.

eh?

that's a smart way of keeping your customer numbers up...

i think it was meant as when they didn't have the money.

anyway... another great victory in the war on drugs.