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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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