Thai police seize Bt40 million in meth pills, heroin
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BANGKOK, Feb 10 -- Thai authorities have arrested drug trafficking suspects in the South with methamphetamine pills and heroin worth more than Bt40 million.

The five suspects are from the “Mayakee” syndicate that eerlier hid Bt 30 million in pipes in a Narathiwat rubber plantation in 2007.

Five men -- Natthapong Khaosawee, Prasong Taksinla, Rungrachanee Phetcharak, Sudeng Sama-ae, and Muhammadsa-largest Tale -- were arrested with 13 kilograms of heroin bars and over 66,000 meth pills altogether worth Bt 40 million at a checkpoint in a Songkhla village, Ban Khuan Meed, in Chana district.

The narcotics were hidden under coconuts in the cargo bed of their pickup truck.

The traffickers said that they had received the drugs from the North and the heroin was destined for Malaysia where its price would soar by as much as 10 times to over Bt400 million.

The speed pills would be retailed in three southern border provinces with part of the earnings earmarked to sponsor southern insurgents.

Among the arrested traffickers, Mr Sudeng is a follower of southern drug kingpin Mayakee Yako who was active in the three southern border provinces and is now jailed in Khao Bin prison in Ratchaburi province.

The authorities found Bt30 million in cash in PVC pipes buried in the compound of his home in Narathiwat's Sungai Kolok district in 2007. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2015-02-10

That will lead to a temporary scarcity and so cause an increase in the price on 'the street' making it far more profitable to sell and produce thus leading to an increase in dealers and producers.....thus leading to more consumers and more addiction and more associated crime. The model for this economic pattern was identified by William Burroughs in the 60s and outlined in the introduction to his book 'The Naked Lunch.' The long beneficiaries of such interdiction are usually politicians, judges, police, and the criminal elite at least in the UK and USA.....To say nothing of the privatised prison service. Here in Asia there are other parties......

That will lead to a temporary scarcity and so cause an increase in the price on 'the street' making it far more profitable to sell and produce thus leading to an increase in dealers and producers.....thus leading to more consumers and more addiction and more associated crime. The model for this economic pattern was identified by William Burroughs in the 60s and outlined in the introduction to his book 'The Naked Lunch.' The long beneficiaries of such interdiction are usually politicians, judges, police, and the criminal elite at least in the UK and USA.....To say nothing of the privatised prison service. Here in Asia there are other parties......

So ? Your point is to sit back at let it happen ?

Can you shine a light on your solution please ??

Thanks in advance

Legalization works better than anything. Holland showed a spike in usage after they legalized everything, but three months later hard drug usage plummeted. Kids going to school saw junkies passed out in the rain at needle park, and not being stupid told themselves: "That's not going to be me."

Prohibition creates crime syndicates. It has never worked. It never will.

One definition of insanity is doing the same thing.....and expecting a different result.

Hahahahahahahaha

so...who are the other 2 people sat at the table?

That will lead to a temporary scarcity and so cause an increase in the price on 'the street' making it far more profitable to sell and produce thus leading to an increase in dealers and producers.....thus leading to more consumers and more addiction and more associated crime. The model for this economic pattern was identified by William Burroughs in the 60s and outlined in the introduction to his book 'The Naked Lunch.' The long beneficiaries of such interdiction are usually politicians, judges, police, and the criminal elite at least in the UK and USA.....To say nothing of the privatised prison service. Here in Asia there are other parties......

So ? Your point is to sit back at let it happen ?

Can you shine a light on your solution

Well first their has to be a decoupling of drugs laws from morality. Then their has to be an acceptance that it natural, as a human being, to sometime be 'in pursuit of oblivion'and that it is a legitimate pursuit. Then a combination of legalisation and decriminalisation combined with taxation and education would result in a lot less damaged lives and a less corrupt police force. The prison imposed judicial system, usually politically motivated does more damage to individuals and society than the drugs themselves. The drugs laws are a convenient stick with which to beat the weakest and poorest members of a society; support the the most negligent and corrupt governments and police forces and allow low intelligence people a chance to hold hold a 'moral' view. The war on drugs is a war on the people littered with atrocities against freedom of thought and consciousness.

death sentence, i hope

Its very hard to judge from any news report here what the circumstances are. Thats my take on these things.

For instance are they Thai? Judging by their names I think so. The news seems so happy to report the nationality when foreigners are involved but they don't say ..so and so "Thai Khun" were arrested.So I assume they were Thai.

That being so I estimate that there must be more Thai criminals in the world than foreign criminals.

And yes ..thats Thai bashing but these criminals deserve it!

One Cop pointing to the Other Cop - "Hey, shouldn't you be sitting down there as well??" I love laughing at my own misdirected jokes

Every time just like the last, on her ship tied to the mast.

The story says 5 suspects but there are 7 suspects in the picture??

wow these drugs were hidden under coconuts, I see coconuts in trucks all the time!!!