A NAVY unit accompanied by Pha Mueang Task Force rangers intercepted a boat on Mekong river flowing through the Golden Triangle and seized around 6.4 million methamphetamine pills last night (Feb. 19), Naewna newspaper said today. Capt. Pakorn Maniam, chief of operations and news department, sent assault boats to patrol Ruak and Mekong rivers
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Abused dad kills drug-addicted son
AFTER suffering beatings for years, a Thai man today (Feb. 3) killed his drug-addicted son and then surrendered to police, TV Channel 7 said. At noon Pol. Lt. Col. Thanakorn Angkurawiroj, deputy chief for investigation at Pho Kaeo police station, was informed of a murder at a house in Om Yai subdistrict, Sampran district,
Read morePolice search luxury housing estate dominated by grey capitalist gang
A POLICE team armed with a search warrant inspected a luxury housing estate in Soi Lasalle after it was discovered that most of these large houses belong to people in the network of Chinese grey capitalist Mr. Chaiyanat Kornchaiyanana, alias Tu Hao, who was earlier arrested on drug charges, Sanook.com said this afternoon (Nov.
Read moreFugitive Chinese-born grey businessman still in Thailand, protected by a big shot
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CHINESE-BORN businessman who has evaded arrest on drug-related charges is currently hiding somewhere in Thailand under care of a highly-placed, powerful person, said former MP Chuvit Kamonvisit today (Nov.19). Chuvit, widely known as an entertainment business entrepreneur, said the fugitive Chinese-born businessman, identified as Tu Hao alias Chaiyanat Kornchaiyanan,
Read moreJunta-linked Myanmar tycoon under initial 12-day detention
A MYANMAR tycoon linked to the upper echelons of his country’s ruling military junta and facing drug trafficking and money laundering charges in Thailand was ordered by court to an initial 12-day detention on Sept. 20, Matichon newspaper said today (Sept. 23). Tun Min Latt, 53, was arrested in Bangkok in a dawn raid
Read moreGermany donates life-saving Covid drugs to Thailand
GERMANY is preparing to deliver medication worth 153 million baht for treatment of Covid-19 patients in Thailand with the donation being part of assistance to help fight the coronavirus pandemic here, Siam Rath newspaper quoted the German embassy as saying today (Sept. 7). The German Ministry of Health has donated monoclonal antibodies (Casirivimab and
Read moreHmong gang held in seizure of 5 million meth pills
LAMPANG police seized 5 million methamphetamine pills from a pickup truck parked in the jungle after which chased and arrested a five-member Hmong hilltribe drug trafficking gang, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (May 24). Pol. Lt. Gen. Prachuap Wongsuk, head of Region 5 police, and Lampang Governor Mr. Narongsak Osotthanakorn said at a press
Read moreDrug-crazed youth kills pump worker, neighbour
A YOUNG Thai man who was still heavily drugged when he was arrested today (March 22) had stabbed a pump attendant to death last night then this morning shot dead his neighbour, TV Channel 7 said. Policemen from Sam Khok station in Pathum Thani province rushed to the single house where Ms Maliwan Saengchan, 40,
Read moreMassive drug haul worth B1.6 billion in Kanchanaburi
A MASSIVE seizure of narcotic drugs worth 1.6 billion baht took place in Kanchanburi province last night with National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Chakthip Chaijinda flying there in a helicopter today (August 25) to question the suspect arrested while driving a truck with a hidden compartment where this huge amount of drugs was hidden, Naewna
Read moreNationwide sweep nets huge pile of drugs
SEVERAL SUSPECTS were arrested in a string of drugs busts across the country with 12 million methamphetamine (Speed) pills being seized in the latest police action while 100 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine (Ice) and 150 kilogrammes Ketamine were netted in earlier raids, INN News reported today (July 21, 2020). On Sunday Narcotics Suppression police trailed
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