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Phuket drug crackdown apprehends 62


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Phuket drug crackdown apprehends 62
Phuket Gazette

PHUKET: -- Phuket police officers apprehended 62 people on drug charges yesterday as part of an anti-drug sweep in Phuket Town and Rassada ordered by Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut.

In total,180 officers took part in the late afternoon maneuver, which involved searching two houses and administering urine drug tests at four checkpoints.

Five teenagers – two girls and three boys – aged between 16 and 17 years old were apprehended smoking ya ice (crystal methamphetamine) at a house on Anuphas Phuketkarn Road in Phuket Town, where officers also found 30 pills of ya bah (methamphetamine).

Officers at checkpoints near Phuket Provincial Hospital, Sri Suthat Road, Rassada Karn Keha Housing Estate intersection and Ruam Phun Phol Bridge administered drug tests to 702 people; 57 tested positive for drugs.

The sweep was carried out by officers drawn from the Phuket Territorial Defense Volunteers, Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket office and plainclothes police from Phuket City Police Station.

Not all the suspects face arrest – those who have no previous record of drug use will be invited to join the the Mattrix Program, a voluntary drug treatment program, Governor Maitri said.

Those with previous drug offenses will be charged, he said.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2014/Phuket-drug-crackdown-apprehends-62-25667.html

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-- Phuket Gazette 2014-02-22

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A little OT I guess, but I wonder how many of these cases will appear down the road here on TV as stories of people who were arrested because they "weren't carrying their passports"... In fact, a good job by the police.

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