Major drug dealer caught in Phuket

[Lite Beer]

Major drug dealer caught in Phuket
Suthicha Sirirat

 

Anupong and Nucharee with the drugs.

 

PHUKET: A series of undercover operations led Pol Lt Col Jaran Bangprasert of the narcotics suppression police and his team to arrest Uten Wantong last night at 7.30pm on charges of possession of methamphetamine.

Uten admitted the charge and then gave police invaluable information that allowed them to catch two people much further up the drug supply chain, and seize more than 4,000 pills from a major drug dealers on the island.

Using the information, they contacted Uten’s dealer and arranged to buy a bag of 10 meth pills (ya bah) from him for B2,000. A meeting was arranged at the PTT gas station near Wichit municipality office on Chao Fa East Rd.

After the police staked out the gas station, a Toyota Vigo pickup truck rolled in and the “buyers” received a coded call: “It’s time to pick up your kid from Thai Hua School.”

The officers moved in and arrested the occupants of the truck, Nucharee Puttha, 36, and Anupong Suwanmart, 27, both from Mae Sai in Chiang Rai. They seized two bags, each containing 10 meth pills and also the two people’s mobile phones.

The police then took them to their house in Soi Song Koon in Chalong, where they uncovered another 4,210 pills.

Nucharee confessed that she have been dealing drugs for about a year and that Anupong was her supplier.

Anupong admitted that he has been in the narcotics business for more than 10 years, and for the past four years he had been working as a drug courier, bringing both pills and crystal meth from the north of Thailand, initially to Nakhon Sawan but more recently to Phuket.

He explained that four years ago he met a man named Daeng from Chiang Rai, who introduced him to a drug agent in Mai Sai, who was a leader of the Black Muser hilltribe.

Anupong started transporting the drugs for him, taking consignments to a man in Nakhon Sawan he named as Ko Lieng. Typically he would carry 50-100 packets of pills and as much as five kilos of crystal meth concealed in his truck.

He would be paid between B200,000 and B600,000 a trip, he said. Sometimes he would be paid in product.

Anupong said he moved to Phuket last year and decided to deal drugs as well as transporting them. He contacted Ko Lieng to buy ya bah to sell in Phuket but a customer cheated him, and Ko Lieng could not sell him any more at that time, so he found a dealer in Chiang Mai who could.

On July 26 he was hired to transport almost 2.9 million pills and 20 kilos of ice to Ko Lieng’s son in Nakhon Sawan.

He was paid in product – 6,000 pills in three packets. He hid two of the packets at Nucharee’s house. It was from one of these that he took the 10 pills to sell to the undercover police.

Anupong and Nucharee were both charged with possession of a Category 1 drug with intent to sell.

 

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/major-drug-dealer-caught-in-phuket-47762.php

 

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[GeorgeO]

Anyone care to suggest that this is another insignificant bust?

 

The hauls are getting bigger and the perps are prepared to name names further up the chain.

 

How come this was not possible prior to the military intervention?

[ezzra]

After the police staked out the gas station, a Toyota Vigo pickup truck rolled in and the “buyers” received a coded call: “It’s time to pick up your kid from Thai Hua School.”

 

Now that would make Serpico pround.......
 

[BigC]

Anyone care to suggest that this is another insignificant bust?
 
The hauls are getting bigger and the perps are prepared to name names further up the chain.
 
How come this was not possible prior to the military intervention?

Who cares he is arrested now

Maybe the people
Further up the chain are un touchable if in a hill tribe on the borders


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[Patje]

Some serious pointing going on !!!! That did not change under the new bosses !!

[thaiguzzi]

Note to self - never, ever be involved in a criminal activity with Thais - what a bunch of slack mouthed wishy washy snitches.

[hawker9000]

Note to self - never, ever be involved in a criminal activity with Thais - what a bunch of slack mouthed wishy washy snitches.

 

Interesting "note to self"...

[Pinot]

Anyone care to suggest that this is another insignificant bust?

 

The hauls are getting bigger and the perps are prepared to name names further up the chain.

 

How come this was not possible prior to the military intervention?

 

Insignificant to the point of being ridiculous. This is a guy selling on the street. Why didn't they pop his supplier? And his supplier. Ya bah use is an epidemic here. 4000 pills is a drop in the ocean. 

[rjcampbe]

 

Insignificant to the point of being ridiculous. This is a guy selling on the street. Why didn't they pop his supplier? And his supplier. Ya bah use is an epidemic here. 4000 pills is a drop in the ocean. 

 

 

Agreed. 

 

One dealer wouldn't sell to him anymore so he found another one who would. First dealer snitches him out to get rid of the competition. 

 

Sounds like Drug Dealing 101 to me... Nothing to see here... move along... 

[HerbalEd]

If all the perps had was 2,000 pills, then they were not very far up the drug supply chain. But maybe that's what the cops wanted.

[Bigfarang1948]

Hardly news worthy  Thailand will never cut off the head of this Snake

Some serious pointing going on !!!! That did not change under the new bosses !!

 

[poweratradio]

Anyone care to suggest that this is another insignificant bust?

 

The hauls are getting bigger and the perps are prepared to name names further up the chain.

 

How come this was not possible prior to the military intervention?

Ever hear of water boarding??? He'd write a tell all book and give up his mother.

[NamKangMan]

 

Anyone care to suggest that this is another insignificant bust?

 

The hauls are getting bigger and the perps are prepared to name names further up the chain.

 

How come this was not possible prior to the military intervention?

Ever hear of water boarding??? He'd write a tell all book and give up his mother.

 

 

A fair reply, but you do have to wonder why "law and order" has increased on Phuket, since the arrival of the Army. 

 

Maybe the Army are water boarding the Phuket police, so they actually do their job.  :)

[chrisinth]

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Anyone care to suggest that this is another insignificant bust?

 

The hauls are getting bigger and the perps are prepared to name names further up the chain.

 

How come this was not possible prior to the military intervention?

Ever hear of water boarding??? He'd write a tell all book and give up his mother.

 

 

Personally, I think waterboarding is a bit retro. Don't get me wrong, it works but ruins the carpet.

 

I would prefer to see much more narcoanalysis employed with BIB bringing stuff like sodium amytal to the party................

 

It would also have an ironic twist to it as well, using drugs to get information on drugs. Works for me.

[Bangmod]

These birds have been singing a whole lot, very detailed story.

Only can't get it why the story should be so detailed in the news, it only will warn the ones involved, or did they already got them too??