Bangkok Informer

Mr Ali Dastbarsar, 23, and Mr Ehsan Babak, 24   BANGKOK – Customs Department at Suvarnabhumi Airport arrested two Iranian nationals for having a combined one kilogramme of crystal methamphetamine in their stomachs. The customs department’s deputy director general Rakop Srisupa-at told a news conference that Mr Ali Dastbarsar, 23, and Mr Ehsan Babak, 24, [...]

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Garnett has been in prison since he was arrested at Bangkok Airport in 1993,   BANGKOK – Martin Garnett  a former Australian luxury car dealer turned heroin trafficker who was once on death row has secured his transfer home after 20 years in foreign jails by using Facebook and crowdfunding site Pozible. Martin Garnett, 45, [...]

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Five drug suspects were killed yesterday in a gunfight between a smugglers’ caravan and the Pha Mueang Task Force in Chiang Rai’s Mae Fa Luang district. Following the 2.30am gunfight on Ban Alae forestland in Tambon Mae Salong Nok, the officers waited until morning to clear the area. Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – Breakingnews

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Hilary Parsons with her sister Lindsay Sandiford   BALI – British woman Lindsay Sandiford lost her appeal against her death sentence in Bali for drug trafficking today. A Bali High Court spokesman said that the sentence handed down to the 56-year-old in January had been upheld. Ms Sandiford claimed she had been coerced into smuggling [...]

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Chia Saethao was driving his pickup truck on the way to delivering the 998,000 Meth pills to dealers in Bangkok   CHIANGRAI – Narcotics Suppression Police arrested a hill-tribe man Chia Saethao in Saruay district of Chiang Rai province, while he was attempting to smuggle around 1 million pills of methamphetamine. Police said 44-year-old Chia Saethao [...]

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Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung briefs reporters in Bangkok on a major drug haul seized in Chiang Rai’s Mae Chan district on Thursday night. SURAPOL PROMSAKA NA SAKOLNAKORN   CHIANGRAI – Police Officials in Chiang Rai have seized 1.97 million yaba pills and 20 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and arrested three men, one of whom [...]

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In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, Myanmar drug lord Naw Kham, left, sits in a police van before being taken execution chambers in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Friday, KUNMING – Official news agency Xinhua reported Friday that the four men died by lethal injection in the southwestern city of [...]

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Police joined by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung announce the seizure of more than 5 million methamphetamine tablets and over 136kg of crystal meth worth a total of 2 billion baht in four separate cases at the Royal Thai Police Office Monday. Several suspects were also brought before the media   CHIANGRAI – An estimated [...]

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Police seized 814,000 methamphetamine pills and 12 kilograms of crystal meth in a drug bust earlier today in Nakhom Pathom. Four men face charges in connection with the drugs, which sources said were being warehoused in the suburbs before being sold to clients in central Bangkok. According to the Bangkok Post, the suspects admitting to [...]

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A statement yesterday from Police deputy spokesman Anucha Romyanan urged Thai women to stay on the lookout for African drug traffickers who, according to the police, could be using romantic relationships as a front via which to recruit the women into service as drug mules. The Nation reports that Anucha’s announcement comes on the heels of [...]

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Former drug kingpin Naw Kham probably isn’t sweating this latest round of asset seizures, seeing as he’s been sentenced to death in China, but still, it’s got to sting knowing that you have to enter the next world without all your coolest stuff in tow. The Bangkok Post reports that on Tuesday, Thai police launched [...]

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Iranians arrested in three hundred million baht drug bust. Photo: Udomgeyit Thipsrigul/Pattaya Radio 103FM   PATTAYA – After months of investigation, one of Thailand’s larges drug seizures was conducted in Pattaya yesterday; over three hundred million baht worth of drugs were seized in the sting operation. Senior detectives from the Banglamung police serious crime division, [...]

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Dirty cop Pol Snr Sgt-Major Manas Suapho has implicated several other names in the Bangkok drug delivery ring he was part of for over two years. Manas, the fugitive cop who surrendered to police on Wednesday, confessed to being a drug mule along with ex-Prachachuen Police Station policeman Prawin Tuaipa and his wife, Suchada. He [...]

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The 30 year old Novela, who is the mother of three children, was arrested on 14 October at Phuket International Airport in Thailand   BANGKOK – The Mozambican government is seeking clemency in the case of a young Mozambican woman, arrested in Thailand in the possession of illicit drugs. In Thailand, as in much of [...]

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Says he sometimes earned close to Bt2.2m for driving shipment to capital Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – National

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