Thai Police Arrest Six Peruvians For Cocaine Smuggling

[elations]

can you please tell me of one place on this earth where its not a big deal to smuggle coke in?

im struggling to think of one and ive been around a bit.

I don't know, really, what they're going to get, but Thailand and some other SE-Asian countries are known to have extremely tough sentences when it comes to drugs, In the Western world this kind of crime would mean a certain amount of years in prison, perhaps upto ten, but might be considerable less also. Very high sentences are usually reserved for the criminal minds behind drug trafficking, rather than the food solders. They'd probably get a tough sentence too, yes, but there would still be a life to look forward to after prison's over.

Edited August 16, 2006 by elations

[Inspector 2211]

The American press have reported that a man named James karr, who is currently under arrest in BKK for "an unrelated sex charge" is now wanted by the police in Colorado, USA. The story as reported is sketchy and incomplete, but apparently this man is suspected of being involved in the

Jon Bennette Ramsey murder case. For those of you who are unaware that case was a big story over here in the states some years back and it comes as a great shock that after so much bungling the police finally have a suspect.

Have any of you expats residing the LOS heard anything about this? Apparently the American authorities are flying to BKK to request extradtion back to Colorado.

Cordially,

Hunter

I have posted a CNN report about this in the Bangkok forum, since I cannot start a new topic in this (News) forum.

Regards,

Harry C.

[chonburi]

I'm inclined to support the view expressed by VicSada and feel some level of sympathy for the 'mules'. I have only a little sympathy for the end users, but none at all for the Mr Bigs who live off the weaknesses and gullibility of both the users and the mules. The countries where these Mr Bigs live, know full well the source of their wealth but are either incapable or unwilling to move against them. Even though those countries may not actually tax the drug they welcome the foreign exchange brought into their countries by the trade.

[dob310870]

Reminds me of a movie I saw recently...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fineline/mariafullofgrace/

Sad that the real scumbags get away and the poor mules many years in a stinking Thai prison or maybe even death. Not sure about the penalty.

not quite sure that we can call them poor mules ?

they decided that they would do the run and knew the consequences of playing this game with the thai authority's.

jesus mate, all the books about the big tiger and they rolled the dice and lost.

the punishment is life in frigging prison and they still had a crack.

sorry, but i aint got to much sympathy for them.

dont know if you got kids or not but if they got hooked on coke because these guys got in you might think a tad different.

any way , just my thoughts.

cheers mate

Dude:

if you were living in the mountains of Peru, and had a family, and had no job, and your family was starving, and some a))hole came and offerecd you 3 K US to be a mule, you would take it and kiss his A**, and say thank you, rather than let your family starve.

it is easy to judge when you sit on your fat Ar**e and make these comments, with your stomack full, some people don't have the luxury.

Personally, leagalize it, control it, tax the hel_l out of it. if not, then go after the bosses, not the poor dumg mules.

If they legalised it and taxed it then the dealers would not need to offer the money for mules to smuggle it. By your logic, you are saying that people would do absolutely anything to feed their family. There are millions of starving people that don't resort to these methods. It was a choice, they chose to smuggle drugs; endangering their own lives and without thought of the lives of the kids that would eventually be using these drugs. Now who will provide for their families? We all have to make choices. I don't think that the act requires any justification from anyone on this forum. Trying to justify why they did it is just trying to make excuses for them. They gambled and they lost.

[dob310870]

can you please tell me of one place on this earth where its not a big deal to smuggle coke in?

im struggling to think of one and ive been around a bit.

I don't know, really, what they're going to get, but Thailand and some other SE-Asian countries are known to have extremely tough sentences when it comes to drugs, In the Western world this kind of crime would mean a certain amount of years in prison, perhaps upto ten, but might be considerable less also. Very high sentences are usually reserved for the criminal minds behind drug trafficking, rather than the food solders. They'd probably get a tough sentence too, yes, but there would still be a life to look forward to after prison's over.

What are "food solders"?

[Huckenfell]

they were probably so ignorant to the laws here that they may have been lead into believing that it was no big deal. Sadly they are about to find out how screwed they are, literally! The rest of my life in a Thai prison or death? hmm what to do, what to do? yes Ice is like a hard core version of meth if meth isnt hard core enough.

Crystal Meth in some form= ice

sorry mate,

but can you please tell me of one place on this earth where its not a big deal to smuggle coke

in?

I think that he means that the consequences are much tougher in some countries than others, and that they were only thinking of the consequences in their own country. Having said that i agree, they were not thinking of the kids who would be getting a life sentance because of their "easy money" attitude.................yep ' Bang em up'

im struggling to think of one and ive been around a bit.

cheers mate

[STB]

they were probably so ignorant to the laws here that they may have been lead into believing that it was no big deal. Sadly they are about to find out how screwed they are, literally! The rest of my life in a Thai prison or death? hmm what to do, what to do? yes Ice is like a hard core version of meth if meth isnt hard core enough.

Crystal Meth in some form= ice

sorry mate,

but can you please tell me of one place on this earth where its not a big deal to smuggle coke in?

im struggling to think of one and ive been around a bit.

cheers mate

I know the place m8, and it's called The Netherlands. Over here we've got plenty of guys from one of our colonies, the Dutch Antilles, arriving with loads of cocaine stuffed into their guts, and customs are sending them back because they cannot handle the load...

hel_l, they even got training classes on the Antilles, where youngers learn to swallow bags of cocaine with carrots, can you imagine?

Thinking about another comment over here, what if you are returning and a bag of cocaine the passanger next to you is 'carrying' busts, and you'll have to watch him struggling for life...

No feelings whatsoever over here for guys smuggling drugs.

Just my 2 cents...

Dirk

The Netherlands

[Scott]

I tend to feel a little sorry for everyone involved in the drug trade. There is just too much money to be made and drugs and sex have always been big sellers and hard to resist.

I am not sure what will happen because these people are truly mules and I would imagine it depends on how much is found in each person--ie., the weight.

[elations]

I don't know, really, what they're going to get, but Thailand and some other SE-Asian countries are known to have extremely tough sentences when it comes to drugs, In the Western world this kind of crime would mean a certain amount of years in prison, perhaps upto ten, but might be considerable less also. Very high sentences are usually reserved for the criminal minds behind drug trafficking, rather than the food solders. They'd probably get a tough sentence too, yes, but there would still be a life to look forward to after prison's over.

What are "food solders"?

Sorry, typo. "Foot soldiers" was what it should have been.

[astral]

I'm glad they caught them before the drugs got on the market.

[Killerbee]

Reminds me of a movie I saw recently...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fineline/mariafullofgrace/

Sad that the real scumbags get away and the poor mules many years in a stinking Thai prison or maybe even death. Not sure about the penalty.

not quite sure that we can call them poor mules ?

they decided that they would do the run and knew the consequences of playing this game with the thai authority's.

jesus mate, all the books about the big tiger and they rolled the dice and lost.

the punishment is life in frigging prison and they still had a crack.

sorry, but i aint got to much sympathy for them.

dont know if you got kids or not but if they got hooked on coke because these guys got in you might think a tad different.

any way , just my thoughts.

cheers mate

This is one of the most ignorant comments I have seen on this forum. You have been around huh. Ever set foot outside the tourist resorts and entered the real world?

[Virgil]

Update:

Six Peruvians arrested on drug charges

.... A team of Narcotics Suppression Bureau officers earlier arrested two Thais, including a pinup model, who were members of a ring that sold Ice Drug and aphrodisiacs mainly to patrons of the nocturnal entertainment venues along Ratchadaphisek Road.

My wife (Thai) would like to know who the pinup model is. Anyone have any info?

Cheers

Virg'

[tracer0]

$3K for their life. Unbelievably stupid.....Oh well

Look, the minimum wage in Peru (and, by coincidence, Thailand too) is something like $100 per month, if you're lucky enough to have a job.

In other words, they did it for the equivalent of 2 1/2 years of [minimum] wages.

In the west, the equivalent would be approximately 10 times as much, $30000.

I can imagine stupid young guys would do a lot for $30000 here in the west.

It's the equivalent of a tuned up Civic or something like that, a pocket sized street racer.

There are young uneducated unemployed guys here in the U.S that would KILL for that kind of

money. And occasionally they do.

I cannot see how they got detected unless they already had been fed to the police in advance. Wouldnt surprise me if suitacse go through full and a few small ones get tipped to the police...

There is just no way that if nobody knows that you have that stuff in your stomage that you would get caught by the police at any airport unless they xray passengers... or there was a tipoff

[farang2002]

$3K for their life. Unbelievably stupid.....Oh well

Look, the minimum wage in Peru (and, by coincidence, Thailand too) is something like $100 per month, if you're lucky enough to have a job.

In other words, they did it for the equivalent of 2 1/2 years of [minimum] wages.

In the west, the equivalent would be approximately 10 times as much, $30000.

I can imagine stupid young guys would do a lot for $30000 here in the west.

It's the equivalent of a tuned up Civic or something like that, a pocket sized street racer.

There are young uneducated unemployed guys here in the U.S that would KILL for that kind of

money. And occasionally they do.

Occasionally? In Los Angeles it happens every day. Pretty sad...

[BlackJack]

Update:

Six Peruvians arrested on drug charges

BANGKOK: -- The ant-inarcotics police arrested six Peruvians on Wednesday at Don Muang Airport for allegedly smuggling 6.7 kg of cocaine into Thailand by swallowing small bags containing the drug to store it in their stomachs.

The culprits, two of them women, ingested different, though small, quantities of cocaine they had obtained in Buenos Aires. Xray films showed the bags in their stomachs and the six are now in police custody. A team of Narcotics Suppression Bureau officers earlier arrested two Thais, including a pinup model, who were members of a ring that sold Ice Drug and aphrodisiacs mainly to patrons of the nocturnal entertainment venues along Ratchadaphisek Road.

The first arrest was made on Morrokot Hemasiri after the model had sold seven grammes of Ice Drug to an undercover agent for Bt12,000 at a rendezvous near Soi Inthammara 44. The criminal's confession led to the arrest of Phana Bunyarattaphan at his apartment off Soi Vibhavadi Rangsit 18, where the police found a handgun and 32 illegal aphrodisiac tablets.

--The Nation 2006-08-16

can anyone tell me what 32 illegal aphrodisiac tablets are?

Edited August 17, 2006 by BlackJack

[konangrit]

can anyone tell me what 32 illegal aphrodisiac tablets are?

Hard drugs.

Edited August 17, 2006 by konangrit

[fruittbatt]

Every time I read another drug-bust story i consider the futility of outlawing drugs.

What is the point of condemning smugglers and users to countless years in prisons which are already brimming with "drug-offenders"? Isn't this dumping of pople into society's garbage bins also simply hiding the extent of the "problem" from public view?

What would happen if all drugs were decriminalised? Seems to me that the rate of consumption of drugs would probably be about the same as it is now - although studies in Holland and Switzerland are ambiguous: some claim less consumption, some more addiction.

What might change if all drugs were legalised/decriminalised is that corrupt organisations and regimes (Burma) would not be able to profit so shamelessly from supplying an eager market. Prices would drop as supply was regulated and taxed, so that many drug-dependent persons would not need to commit crimes to get the cash to feed their habits. The stigmatization of users would also diminish, and safe injecting practices might limit the spread of HIV and Hep C infections.

This is a very superficial survey of a complex question, but this topic begs discussion of the context in which stories like this are considered "newsworthy".

[ilyushin]

Information on Cocaine for those of us that don't know the facts.

[elations]

can anyone tell me what 32 illegal aphrodisiac tablets are?

Hard drugs.

An aphrodisiac is a drugs that enhance sexual desire and/or performance. I might have missed something, but I'm not aware of any hard drug being called by that term. I guess what the article must have been refering to was Viagra or a similar acting drug. They didn't find any really illegal drugs during the raid, so the police might have added the word "illegal" to their report to make the raid sound more successful than the failure it actually was. The explanation why they felt to have the right to use the term "illegal" might have been nothing more than the fact that the drugs were obtained without prescription. Or the Viagra or similar aphrodisiac found hadn't been produced by a pharmaceutical company but in a clandestine laboratory, for higher profits.

Edited August 17, 2006 by elations

[konangrit]

can anyone tell me what 32 illegal aphrodisiac tablets are?

Hard drugs.

An aphrodisiac is a drugs that enhance sexual desire and/or performance. I might have missed something, but I'm not aware of any hard drug being called by that term. I guess what the article must have been refering to was Viagra or a similar acting drug. They didn't find any really illegal drugs during the raid, so the police might have added the word "illegal" to their report to make the raid sound more successful than the failure it actually was. The explanation why they felt to have the right to use the term "illegal" might have been nothing more than the fact that the drugs were obtained without prescription. Or the Viagra or similar aphrodisiac found hadn't been produced by a pharmaceutical company but in a clandestine laboratory, for higher profits.

Too deadpan for you?

[Samuian]

There were times when coca, coca, coca cola was a tonic containing just these substances - billions have been made, then hemp and alcolhol became illegal, dupont inc. was born.....viagra an "illegal" drug... very funny indeed!

then why all those cobra blood cocktil consuming 'mr. nice guys' don't get arrested then? they claim all sorts of things - connected to the consumption of viagra & co. I don't get it - but then.... who cares - may be next the consumption of oysters, of the 'horsepee' eggs and the like will be illegal and fill the human dumps even more.... rinohorns, tigerbones, tigerpeepee's....bears & snakes gallbladders...and all this sick stuff & chinatown comes to mind - when will there be a raid? - I wonder....

[Livinginexile]

Every time I read another drug-bust story i consider the futility of outlawing drugs.

Really? make hard drugs legal?

I think you ought to spend some time in a detox or a rehabilitation centre to see the damage drugs do to peoples lives.

What an unitelligent thing to say.

[fruittbatt]

Every time I read another drug-bust story i consider the futility of outlawing drugs.

Really? make hard drugs legal?

I think you ought to spend some time in a detox or a rehabilitation centre to see the damage drugs do to peoples lives.

What an unitelligent thing to say.

You may be surprised to know that my three members of my family have been long-term heroin addicts. All but one have struggled for half their lives to overcome their habits. One has been to jail for 4 years for drug-related crimes. My beautiful and highly intelligent daughter is still in the process of re-making her life. The illegality of drugs only made the lives of my brother, sister, and daughter even harder than they would otherwise have been. Legality would not have solved their addiction but it would have saved a family from being broken up by the imprisonment of the mother. It would have saved my brother from Hep C through sharing needles, AND if the drug had been legal it would have destroyed the mysterious allure of an illicit substance to a young teenager: my daughter.

[jimmy5L]

After all the problems you have with drugs you still want to make it legal ???

how stupid are you

like I said: only junkies have idees like you !!!

I made my comments to show the futility of outlawing drugs. I do not appreciate your personal abuse, even if you happen to disagree with my views. I have never used "hard" drugs, not because I am "better" than those you choose to label "junkies" but because I was a cautious young person unlike my more curious and adventurous siblings.

I made my comment because I feel sorry for al those curious and adventurous siblings at school who got hooked on drugs. This directly the fault of drug dealers and smugglers (and pro-legalizes) who wanne make money!

I never used any drugs and never will!

[Boomee]

Come on people!do you realy think that these six sad peruvians need to be locked up in Thailand.They have done this for a measly 3K,so they are desperate.It needs to be stopped at the source which will never happen.I say send them back home,and wait for the next lot.Im sure there is loads of drugs comeing through that airport,its just the tip of the ice berg.

[jdinasia]

Come on people!do you realy think that these six sad peruvians need to be locked up in Thailand.They have done this for a measly 3K,so they are desperate.It needs to be stopped at the source which will never happen.I say send them back home,and wait for the next lot.Im sure there is loads of drugs comeing through that airport,its just the tip of the ice berg.

Smuggle drugs into Thailand and you won't be in Jailtoo long ... it is a death sentence crime.

[TokyoT]

Come on people!do you realy think that these six sad peruvians need to be locked up in Thailand.They have done this for a measly 3K,so they are desperate.It needs to be stopped at the source which will never happen.I say send them back home,and wait for the next lot.Im sure there is loads of drugs comeing through that airport,its just the tip of the ice berg.

Good idea, send them back home so they can get paid another $3000 USD to act as mules to carry dope back into Thailand or some other country.

I mean not like these are people with brains, they are just mules - Cannot blame a mule for being stubborn.

[jimmy5L]

I say: put em in jail, long long time with lots of media, an exemple for others!

[fruittbatt]

Come on people!do you realy think that these six sad peruvians need to be locked up in Thailand.They have done this for a measly 3K,so they are desperate.It needs to be stopped at the source which will never happen.I say send them back home,and wait for the next lot.Im sure there is loads of drugs comeing through that airport,its just the tip of the ice berg.

Good idea, send them back home so they can get paid another $3000 USD to act as mules to carry dope back into Thailand or some other country.

I mean not like these are people with brains, they are just mules - Cannot blame a mule for being stubborn.

Boomee's point seemed to be that because there is a ready, profitable, and highly illegal market there will always be someone desperate or greedy enough to take the risk...quite possibly someone who is also addicted or has a big debt. The futility of this situation is in locking people up, when, as Boomee points out, there will be plenty of others desperate enough to take the same risk. Result? overcrowded jails, alternative suppliers or alternative drugs. Who is the ass here...the mules or the law?

[jimmy5L]

Who cares about overcrowded jails?? I care about kids in high school, stuff all drug related suppliers in jail, for a long time, and the problem is solved!

Nobody wants to go to jail, especially a tough jail, (or at least I imagine!), so, let them be an example!!

If smugglers don’t risk anything, where is the end??