Vigilant officers rewarded as smart police make huge drug bust in southern Thailand

Thaivisa Reporters

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CHUMPHON:-- Drug mules from the North East in a two vehicle convoy were intercepted by cunning police on Friday as more than 100 million baht of Ya Ba and Ice was seized, reports Thaivisa News.

One set of mules appeared to take their family along as cover. Southern Thailand officers in the case received rewards for their good work.

A checkpoint set up in Chumphon on the road south had stopped an Isuzu pickup and seeing the driver and his wife nervous had suspicions they might be involved in drugs. In the back of the pick up was a three year old and a youth aged 16.

Officers' suspicions increased as a mobile phone belonging to the couple kept ringing but went unanswered. Nothing was found in the truck but police believed it was the lead vehicle in a convoy. They saw a Toyota pickup some fifty metres back brake suddenly and turn off the road and followed it at a distance.

Later they found the Toyota parked at the market next to Pathew station some 30 kilometres away from the checkpoint. Inside the vehicle was 390,000 ya ba pills and five kilograms of ice worth 113 million baht.

Surasak Tatudee,31,and his wife Renu Chaiphutorn,43, along with an unnamed 16 year old youth in the first vehicle and 51 year old Bunyeun Khotha in the Toyota were all arrested.

Thesa Siriwatho of the Chumphon police said that the husband and wife had been paid 50,000 to be part of the gang and Bunyeun was paid 250,000 by a Laotian kingpin to deliver the drugs from Sakon Nakorn to Hat Yai in the far south.

Officer Thesa praised police for drug busts in the area that have seen a million pills and 17 suspects rounded up so far this year. Gifts were giving to officers involved in the arrests.

Investigations continue to find the ringleader behind the case.

-- 2016-03-26

Gifts were giving to officers involved in the arrests.

Next thing to come, every Thai pilot receive gifts for safe landing and bus drivers get rewarded if the passengers arrive alive at their destination...

Rewarded? If so they deserved it. Good work and how many young lives will this drug seizure save? Probably hundreds. I hope the master mind behind this gets his just deserts.

And what ever happens to the drugs seized in these busts? Any public destruction of them? Or do they just "mysteriously" fade into oblivion?

Rewards and kickbacks to police for simply doing thier job leads to corruption

Name and shame the Lao kingpin.

Name and shame the Lao kingpin.

Name and shame the Lao kingpin.

You cannot name and shame generals in either country.

And what ever happens to the drugs seized in these busts? Any public destruction of them? Or do they just "mysteriously" fade into oblivion?

They may mysteriously make their own way to Hat Yai, after all some one would be very angry to loose that much dosh.