Five foreigners caught in anti-crime drive in Phuket

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Five foreigners caught in anti-crime drive in Phuket
Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: -- Five foreigners and six Thais were arrested by police from Kathu Police Station during a two-week special push against crime ordered by Bangkok, which ended on Monday (July 15).

All were arrested for drug offences during the drive. They were:

Fidelis Vaboomaronanna, 25, from Nigeria, caught with with 51 bags of crystal methamphetamine (ya ice), the biggest haul of ice in Phuket this year;

Watchakorn “O” Neungboonchu, 29, with seven bags of ya ice; Yuwapaporn Chareurat, 38, with 127 grams of ya ice; Rungsiam Hommaak, 32, with 10 pills of methamphetamine (ya ba); Sirilak “Pat” Keankonpan, 27, with 3.8 grams of ya ice; Chanchai “Chai” Chanuk, 29, with five bags of ya ice.

Kertpon “Kem” Changwad, 20, with seven bags of ya ice.

Four Burmese, named as Tong, 24, Star, 36, Selip, 36, and Ola, 27, all found in possession of small bottles containing the makings for the drink “4x100”, which includes kratom, a restricted drug.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/five-foreigners-caught-in-anti-crime-drive-in-phuket-40875.php


-- Phuket News 2013-07-17

[bobl]

Just how stupid do they think we are?

ONE foreigner (the Nigerian) with a significant haul

SIX Thais (mostly with ya ba or ya ice)

and thrown in to bolster the 'foreigner' figures, four Burmese, with kratom - a "drug" which even the authorities agree should have been removed from the prohibited list years ago, since the only reason it got on the prohibited list in the first place was that it interfered with the highly lucrative Opium trade.

[stevenl]

Just how stupid do they think we are?

ONE foreigner (the Nigerian) with a significant haul

SIX Thais (mostly with ya ba or ya ice)

and thrown in to bolster the 'foreigner' figures, four Burmese, with kratom - a "drug" which even the authorities agree should have been removed from the prohibited list years ago, since the only reason it got on the prohibited list in the first place was that it interfered with the highly lucrative Opium trade.

Yes, the drug should be removed from the list.

Does not change the fact that Burmese are not Thai, therefor foreigners.

[LivinginKata]

Bangkok ordered a 'push' so the local BIB have to make the figures look good.

[Andre0720]

Just how stupid do they think we are?

ONE foreigner (the Nigerian) with a significant haul

SIX Thais (mostly with ya ba or ya ice)

and thrown in to bolster the 'foreigner' figures, four Burmese, with kratom - a "drug" which even the authorities agree should have been removed from the prohibited list years ago, since the only reason it got on the prohibited list in the first place was that it interfered with the highly lucrative Opium trade.

Yes, the drug should be removed from the list.

Does not change the fact that Burmese are not Thai, therefor foreigners.

Well, perhaps because of the word foreigner being generally associated with the word 'farang', typically the white Europeans.

Oh then 'one nigerian'...hummm.

Oh well, Thai authorities should have added that they were happy that no farangs were then part of this haul...

[DGIE]

Vaboomaronanna , a nigerian. Maybe he diverted to another way of

earnings when he could no longer find victims in email scam. The transfering

of millions of dollar to anybodies' bank account.

[Wombat6]

Two weeks of concerted effort and this is all they have to show for it ?????

[lee b]

Bang em all up !

[Roel]

Would not like to see bai kratom removed from the list. Have had several staff members using it resulting in extremely odd and very aggressive behaviour. But then it is of course possible that people react very differently. The same as with alcohol.

[Just1Voice]

Two weeks of concerted effort and this is all they have to show for it ?????

Yeah, and they probably only got this because some unhappy customer got mad and tipped off the BiB.

[zaZa9]

Every time Ive been through the Katu Checkpoint here in Phuket these past 2 weeks , theyve only been stopping and searching motor cycles.

[nosatisfaction]

Well, perhaps because of the word foreigner being generally associated with the word 'farang', typically the white Europeans.

Oh then 'one nigerian'...hummm.

Oh well, Thai authorities should have added that they were happy that no farangs were then part of this haul...

why not raid Skvit Soi 3? plenty of them

[lostmebike]

Two weeks of concerted effort and this is all they have to show for it ?????

Amazing what you can do in 2 weeks!

A Nigerian and a handful of locals amounts to a big success???

Really happy that ice <deleted> is off the streets though but the question has to be asked, were they just busted cos their brown envelope wasn't big enough or cos they weren't 'contributing' to the local, fat BIB?

The headline's completely inaccurate, should read 'Asians caught in ...'

[CiaranO]

Two weeks of concerted effort and this is all they have to show for it ?????

Yeah, and they probably only got this because some unhappy customer got mad and tipped off the BiB.

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Come on - you know the BIB can concentrate only for a few minutes at a time - 2 weeks is asking an awful lot

[stevenl]

Just how stupid do they think we are?

ONE foreigner (the Nigerian) with a significant haul

SIX Thais (mostly with ya ba or ya ice)

and thrown in to bolster the 'foreigner' figures, four Burmese, with kratom - a "drug" which even the authorities agree should have been removed from the prohibited list years ago, since the only reason it got on the prohibited list in the first place was that it interfered with the highly lucrative Opium trade.

Yes, the drug should be removed from the list.

Does not change the fact that Burmese are not Thai, therefor foreigners.

Well, perhaps because of the word foreigner being generally associated with the word 'farang', typically the white Europeans.

Oh then 'one nigerian'...hummm.

Oh well, Thai authorities should have added that they were happy that no farangs were then part of this haul...

Yes, especially on this forum, since this is an almost exclusively farang forum, not a foreigner forum. So in the TV world foreigner' and farang' are interchangeable, but in the real world they are not.

[jpduggan]

Would not like to see bai kratom removed from the list. Have had several staff members using it resulting in extremely odd and very aggressive behaviour. But then it is of course possible that people react very differently. The same as with alcohol.

Maybe it's what else they were mixing it with.

[EBlair48]

People using these drugs arent dangerous to anyone but themselves, stop the insane road carnage first.

[EBlair48]

I notice that too, they only harass the poor.

Every time Ive been through the Katu Checkpoint here in Phuket these past 2 weeks , theyve only been stopping and searching motor cycles.