Klong Prem prison’s raid nets 20 cellphones, drugs and many knives

BANGKOK: -- The police and the military arrested a drug trafficker and seized about 20 mobile phones, drugs knives and other sharpened objects in a raid of Klong Prem central prison today (Wednesday).

The raid followed the recent arrest of two drug addicts, Natthakarn Poonsap and Mrs Nareerat Supanya who allegedly confessed to getting their drug supplies from Nattahwut Homchuen, aka Tao, who has been serving a life imprisonment in Klong Prem prison on drug trafficking charges.

The arrest of the couple also led to a police sting operation which succeeding in capturing Damrong Kongsamnuan and the seizure of 2,596 methamphetamine tablets and 271 grammes of Ice worth altogether 870,000 baht.

Information extracted from the three led the police and the military to carry out a raid of Klong Prem prison where Tao is serving his life term. Extensive searches of prison cells and compound in the prison uncovered 20 cellphones, over 70 knives and sharpened objects and some ya ba.

Police alleged that Tao still carried on with drug trafficking operations from the prison using the cell phones to order his men outside the prison to carry out drug deliveries.

Mr Pathom Wongsuwan, the superintendent of Klong Prem central prison, said that it was near impossible to police every corner in the prision. However, he promised to step up security and to improve jamming system to cut off telephone signals in the prison.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/klong-prem-prisons-raid-nets-20-cellphones-drugs-many-knives/

-- Thai PBS 2014-09-24

Same that happens all around the world. Its nearly impossible to stop and the guards are as guilty also. This raid possibly slowed their trafficking only a little.

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Hardly a surprise really is it, you put loads of criminals in one place do you really expect them to become choir boys? Most of them are probably not getting out, so have little to lose and a more comfortable life to gain in chokey.

The prison guards, are ne better than the police out side the walls, they also love money, luxury

items and MORE money, no matter how many time you change the guards, there will always be

the corrupt one in there, the solution, is to introduce electronic jamming measures, metal detectors

and sniffer dogs and you have solved 70 % of the problems... never all the problems...

I wonder if the numbers of the high ups in the phone books of the phones would be worth following up.