Drug mule caught in Phuket with B2m in meth

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Drug mule caught in Phuket with B2m in meth
Saran Mitrarat


Gen Patchara with 'Champ' and the drugs. He warned, 'If you are selling drugs in Phuket, you will see me soon.'

PHUKET: -- Police on Sunday evening (October 26) arrested a methamphetamine (ya bah)delivery man who was carrying 8,000 pills into Phuket. They have linked him to a distribution network linked to Nakorn Srithammarat Provincial Prison.

Acting on information extracted from drug dealers previously arrested, officers had details of the next large delivery, and stopped the suspect riding a motorbike near the Ko En curve on Thepkrassattri Rd in Mai Khao.

The man, Thiwasak “Champ” Janniyom, 29, from Nakorn Sri Thammarat, was riding a Yamaha SR400 with no license plate. Police searched him.

“Officers found 8,000 ya bah pills separately packed in 40 small plastic bags in a bag slung across his chest under his jacket,” said Phuket Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Patchara Boonyasit, in a media conference this morning (October 29).

“Ya bah sells on the street for B250 a pill, so the total valued of this haul is about B2 million,” he noted.

Thiwasak told the press, “This was the first time I had delivered drugs. Normally I work as a rubber tapper Chumporn. I could not afford my monthly bills, so when Kittichai “Roon” Onpetkong offered me a job making a delivery to a man named “Seua” for B5,000, I took it.

“I picked up the drugs from Tung Song in Nakhon Sri Thammarat and the rode the bike through Krabi, Lam Tub in Phang Nga and came into Phuket through the Tah Chat Chai check point.”

Asked who “Seua” is, Gen Patchara said cryptically that he is a person “who loves to read newspapers” and is now under investigation by Phuket Provincial Police.

He added that it had been established that the drugs had been ordered from a prisoner in Nakhon Sri Thammarat Provincial Prison.

“It is not a big deal for me to ask coordination from police in Nakhon Sri Thammarat because I used to be the commander there,” he added.

In addition to the drugs police seized Thiwasak’s motorbike and his Nokia mobile phone. He was charged with possession of a Category 1 narcotic with intent to sell.

This is the second significant drug bust in Phuket recently, the other being a haul of B9 million worth of crystal methamphetamine trafficked by a drug ring led by an unidentified woman, “Ms Bee”, who is also in prison.

“This is another network sending drugs to Phuket and our investigation is ongoing. As for the Ms Bee network, all I can can just reveal is that she is doing time in Ratchaburi Prison. Police will question her as soon as we have strong enough evidence,” Gen Patchara added.

“It is not just small dealers who are being arrested in Phuket, but also big dealers linked to prisons in Thailand. More and more suspects will be arrested as fast as possible,” he said.

“Drugs are a national issue that I was assigned to get rid of. All drug users, dealers and networks must be expunged from our country.”

He warned, “If you are selling drugs in Phuket, you will see me soon.”

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/drug-mule-caught-in-phuket-with-b2m-in-meth-49393.php


-- Phuket News 2014-10-29

[LivinginKata]

Another loser banged up in jail - Good.

[clockman]

Just another pawn, follow the money!

[Sviss Geez]

Just another pawn, follow the money!

Profound, original and meaningless.

[NamKAheng]

The man, Thiwasak “Champ” Janniyom, 29, from Nakorn Sri Thammarat, was riding a Yamaha SR400 with no license plate.

Great criminal mastermind!

[2008bangkok]

If you wanna be a drug dealer/mule then up to you but why do they always have to rat out others..

[Dannyboy666]

5,000 baht, Desperation, we'll he won't have to worry about the Bill's , Now...

[jcisco]

So sad if his story is true, 5k with 2million in product and an intent to sell charge. And just the delivery boy.

Once again the police jump on the wrong person rather than pushing up the chain to a more critical individual or network. Actually perhaps the method of obtaining such intel is to arrest everyone up the chain, interrogate them and use their info from them to identify the next step.

This will only result in a dead end, with the networks able to slip away from the police to continue their operations. A serious dent into the distribution networks will only be momentary at best, as other countries have experienced interdiction at the import, manufacture, cultivation and precursor stages are very disruptive.

Unless I misunderstand Thailands position within the drug trade, Thailand has a domestic market but also is a gateway to the west with supplies coming from the surrounding countries??