HUA HIN Provincial Court quashed a charge of possessing one methamphetamine (Speed) pill filed against a truck driver after a police search on November 13 last year landed him in a legal tangle, Channel 3 News reported today (Sept. 22, 2020). Mr. Sophon Wongsawat, 47, was driving a truck loaded with rubber sheets from Chumphon
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Hunted drug runner shot dead in gunfight with police
A DRUG TRAFFICKER who had been on the run for three days after he shot and critically injured an undercover police officer in Nakhon Ratchasima province upon realizing he had fallen into a trap was shot dead in a gunfight with a police team today (August 1), Naewna newspaper reported. National Police Chief Pol. Gen.
Read moreInfluential municipal councillor’s son held on drug charge
ARRESTED together with an accomplice at 2 p.m. today (August 1) was the son of a well-known Ubon Ratchathani municipal councillor on drug trafficking charges after a total of 72,000 tablets of methamphetamine (Speed) was found in their possession, Naewna newspaper reported. The Border Patrol Police Unit 227 together with police and soldiers from various
Read moreDrug runner hunted after shooting undercover policeman
Nakhon Ratchasima – Police are hunting for a drug trafficker who shot and critically injured an undercover police officer who had set a trap and met him to buy a quantity of methamphetamine (Speed) at noon today (July 29), Sanook.com reported Pol. Sub. Lt. Song Duaykrathok, who was hit by two shots, one in the
Read morePolice smash network laundering B200 billion drug money
IN A nationwide operation police broke up a major drug trafficking network which was working on laundering 200 billion baht with 300 suspected arrested including gold shop and oil business owners, INN News report this afternoon (June 19). Seized in this operation was a total of 700,000 tablets of methamphetamine (Speed) and around five kilogrammes
Read moreHilltribe woman claims TV wrongly identified her as drug runner
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A HMONG WOMAN was ultimately appalled at a TV news coverage which broadcast a picture of her and identified her by name as a drug trafficking suspect on the loose. Suree Khiriwattanakul, the Hmong villager of Phop Phra district of Tak province, yesterday filed a complaint with local police alleging that
Read moreChiang Mai police nab three in huge drug bust
By Thai Newsroom Reporters POLICE IN CHIANG MAI province seized a record haul of speed pills on the way to the interior of the country in the wee hours today (May 30). A total of 14 million methamphetamine tablets, contained in 77 fertilizer bags, were seized from a pickup truck parked at a hotel in
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