Police in Saraburi seize 3 million yaba pills

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Anti-narcotics Police confiscated three million pills of methamphetamine

SARABURI, 25 October 2013 (NNT) - Anti-narcotics police have confiscated more than three million methamphetamine pills being smuggled from a neighboring country into Thailand by a huge trafficking ring.

Two men were also arrested after police searched their cars parking at a gas station on Saraburi highway on Thursday morning.

Police acted on a tip-off from suspects who had been arrested earlier in a central province that those speed pills would be sent in from a plant in a neighboring country, according to Pol. Lt. Gen Somyos Poompunmuang, deputy national police chief.

The two arrested are said to have a connection with the alleged drug lord Chaiwat Pornsakulpaisal, alias Lt. Col. Yi Sey.

Previously, Thai anti-drug authorities have reported that five factories producing methamphethamine, heroin and other drugs have been found in border areas inside neighboring Myanmar. It is also believed that those plants belonged to Lt. Col. Yi Sey.

The group has apparently changed smuggling routes fromThailand’s Northern region to the Northeast via the Lao PDR.


-- NNT 2013-10-25

[muratremix]

My wife told me they used to burn these drugs in public. Now they don't.

So I'm assuming they are providing a safe passage and gaining promotion (and money!) at the same time? Thats a win win.

[Dr Robert]

hope these ugly dangerous drugs never ever see the light of day and that needless misery is averted

[MMarlow]

My wife told me they used to burn these drugs in public. Now they don't.

So I'm assuming they are providing a safe passage and gaining promotion (and money!) at the same time? Thats a win win.

Both your wife and you are wrong, something like $300m worth of confiscated drugs were burned in late June.

[myluckythai]

hang the scum..... so much grief they cause

[Colabamumbai]

Seems to be the favoured drug of the moment in Thailand. Got to keep those van drivers awake.

[MegaRanter]

I wanted to read more on Lt Col Yi Sei. Must be an interesting character.

[ratcatcher]

I wanted to read more on Lt Col Yi Sei. Must be an interesting character.

try this, a little extra.maybe you've read already?

http://www.mcot.net/site/content?id=51d94044150ba0010500021e#.Umpz53CBkUw

[yingyo]

My wife told me they used to burn these drugs in public. Now they don't.

So I'm assuming they are providing a safe passage and gaining promotion (and money!) at the same time? Thats a win win.

How much were hundreds of Thais caught paying to cheat on the Police Entrance Exam last year paying again? 300,000 baht right.

For a job that starts at 8,000 b p/m

Teachers were caught too, cheating on their entrance exams.

Don't ever forget what sort of society and people we are dealing with.

Edited October 25, 2013 by yingyo

[paz]

I have the deep rooted suspect that in reality, nobody in Thailand could care less about what pills people take, as long they are benefitted from the matter, whatever side they are on.

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Thailand seizes meth pills worth $30 mln

BANGKOK, October 26, 2013 (AFP) - Thai police announced Friday a huge seizure of more than five million illegal methamphetamine pills -- worth about $30 million -- believed to have been smuggled from Myanmar.

The drugs bust is one of the kingdom's largest in years and reflects soaring production of amphetamine-type stimulants in Myanmar, which is emerging from decades of military rule.

Six people were arrested in two related seizures of the pills, known as yaba -- "crazy medicine" -- found at a house in Nonthaburi near Bangkok and in a truck in the central province of Phetchabun, authorities said.

"We seized around 5.3 million yaba pills worth around one billion baht," Police Lieutenant General Surapol Thuanthong of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau told AFP by telephone.

He said the pills were produced in Myanmar and smuggled through the Golden Triangle region, where the remote edges of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet.

"Now production is increasing because it makes a lot of profits", Surapol said. "Minority groups have small factories to make them."

It is estimated that at least 1.4 billion yaba tablets -- with an estimated street value of $8.5 billion -- are being produced each year in the Golden Triangle region, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

There are an estimated 600,000 yaba users in Thailand.

The drug is mostly made in isolated mobile laboratories hidden in the forests of Shan state in Myanmar, which is also still the second-largest global source of opium after Afghanistan.

The drugs trade is closely linked to Myanmar's long-running insurgencies in remote border areas, with ethnic minority rebels widely thought to use the profits to fund their operations.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2013-10-26

[yingyo]

Some officials will have big new s-classes to drive to the temple to release some fish and turtles with their family.

[adweb00]

So much is put on this stuff being so bad and causing so much grief blah blah! Alcohol causes more issues globally than illegal drugs!! Don't get me wrong there illegal and you have to abide by the law. Just think every country makes it sound sooo bad but will happily sell you alcohol and tobacco!

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