Ya bah worth over B7mn seized off Phuket
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Ms Jiraporn Phromnoo, 42, and Somnieg Rammanee had in total 70,000 ya bah pills worth over 7 million baht.

PHUKET: -- A man and woman from Nakhorn Sri Thammarat were arrested by Region 8 police in Phang-nga on Friday (Jan 8) when they were found to be in possession of 70,000 methamphetamine pills (ya bah) worth more than seven million baht.

The arrest of the two was announced at a press conference held jointly by Region 8 Police’s Lt General Tesa Siriwato and Deputy Superintendent of Phuket City Police Lt Col Prawit Engchuwn today (Jan 11) at the Region 8 Police Headquarters in Mai Khao.

At the press conference, police presented Ms Jiraporn Phromnoo, 42, and Somnieg Rammanee together with their stash of 70,000 pills and other seized items including two mobile phones and Isuzu pick up truck with a Phattalung licence plate.

Jiraporn and Somnieg were initially charged with illegal possession of a category 1 drug with intent to sell and attempting to sell a category 1 drug (10,000 meth pills).

However, Jiraporn was later charged again with with illegal possession of a Category 1 drug with intent to sell after police discovered a further 60,000 pills at a rambutan fruit orchard in the Chauat district of Nakorn Sri Thammarat.

The arrest of Jiraporn and Somnieg came after Phuket drug and crime suppression police arrested Patchanee Pantip with 10 ya bah pills in Srisoonthon on January 7.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/ya-bah-worth-over-b7mn-seized-off-phuket-55741.php


-- Phuket News 2016-01-11

A decent drug bust ...

Those folks are in a mess of trouble.

Let the drugs pass. The more in the market the lower the price so finally not interesting anymore to risk your life.

Nah, that is what the puppet string people want. Everybody on drugs so many more sheepels/slaves.

Tomorrow in the street market...

Let the drugs pass. The more in the market the lower the price so finally not interesting anymore to risk your life.

Nah, that is what the puppet string people want. Everybody on drugs so many more sheepels/slaves.

That's the problem with cases like these.

It's a decent haul of drugs taken off the street, but due to supply and demand market forces, all a decent drug bust like this does is raise the street price of the drugs currently on the market.

Higher drug prices means more crime committed to purchase more expensive drugs.

Look at the two in the photo, do they really look like they could fund this amount of drugs for distribution? I doubt they were given this amount of drugs on consignment.

Unless they start arresting the financiers, traffickers and manufacturers, which dries up the market, it just means the general public is more at risk of becoming a victim of crime.