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Blitz nets 9 suspects and pills



>From July 7th, Bangkok Post
Blitz nets 9 suspects and pills

Nine persons were arrested and over 180,000 amphetamine pills 
confiscated by anti-narcotics officials in a weekend blitz.

In Chiang Rai, a Laotian man was yesterday charged with possessing 
20,000 amphetamine pills.

The suspect, Kanya Jarmnoiprom, 17, from Tambon Nawah in the 
northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom, was travelling on a bus from 
Chiang Rai province to Nakhon Phanom province yesterday when 
apprehended.

He confessed that he had bought the drug for over 300,000 baht in 
Tachilek, Burma, opposite Thailand's Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai.

The amphetamine pills were found in paper wrappings hidden in his carry 
bag. Police said Kanya planned to sell the drug in Nakhon Phanom for a 
five hundred percent profit.

The suspect was also caught in possession of two fake identity cards. He 
said he was unable to get a real one because his father was Lao and his 
mother Burmese.

Also yesterday, a police raid on a house in Tambon Khirirat in Tak 
province early yesterday morning netted 11,690 speed pills. Five men 
were arrested.

In Phayao, a couple was arrested on drug charges after anti-narcotics 
agents found 150,000 amphetamine tablets hidden in their pick-up truck.

Somkiat Huayhong, 20, and his wife Suree Poosupha, 17, were arrested at 
a petrol station on Phaholyothin road in Mae Chai district last 
Thursday.

Police allegedly found a package of amphetamine pills in a PVC pipe 
hidden in a special compartment of their vehicle's petrol tank.

The couple told the police they were hired for 15,000 baht to smuggle 
the illicit drugs from Burma's Tachilek to a dealer in Thon Buri.

In Min Buri, Bangkok, a man was arrested on a charge of possessing 8,000 
amphetamine pills.

Somkiat Petprakorb, 27, was allegedly found in possession of the pills 
packed in 40 bags when Nimit Mai police manning a checkpoint on 
Hathairas road waved him over for a routine search.

The suspect told the police he was hired by a truck driver identified 
only as "Roong" for 300 baht to deliver the drug near Wat Bangchan on 
Phayasurane road.


"THERE WILL BE NO REAL DEMOCRACY IF WE CAN'T GURANTEE THE RIGHTS OF THE 
MINORITY ETHNIC PEOPLE.  ONLY UNDERSTANDING THEIR SUFFERING AND HELPING 
THEM TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS WILL ASSIST PREVENTING FROM THE 
DISINTEGRATION AND THE SESESSION."  "WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THEIR 
STRENGTH, WE CAN'T TOPPLE THE SLORC AND BURMA WILL NEVER BE IN PEACE."


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