Provincial Police Region 5 officers joined forces with anti-human trafficking organisations to raid a karaoke bar in Chiang Mai’s Muang district yesterday and rescue 13 female workers, including three girls aged under 18. Together with the Anti-Trafficking Coordination Unit Northern Thailand (Trafcord) and the Counter Human Trafficking Unit (CTU), police raided the “Mida” karaoke bar […]
Foreign ATM fraudsters were arrested By Pattaya Police. The victims were found to have lost up to a million Baht each. Pattaya, 15th February 2011 [PDN] : At approximately 05.30 pm of Tuesday, Pol. Col. Nanthawut Suwanlaorng (Pattaya Police Superintendent) and his investigation team cooperating with the police officers from Chon Buri Transnational Suppression Unit […]
YALA, Feb 14 – A combined force of police and soldiers on Monday detained nine persons for their alleged involvement in Sunday’s powerful car bomb in a Yala municipality market which injured 18 people and set off a blaze that swept through 10 nearby shophouses and caused an estimated Bt10 million (US$330,000) in damage. The […]
NARATHIWAT, Feb 9 – One suspected insurgent was detained Wednesday for questioning after being captured in a military raid in Narathiwat. About 50 soldiers raided an area in the Baan Jor Kor mountain range in Cho Ai Rong district after learning that a hideout of a Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) armed force was located there […]
A Nigerian man and a Thai woman were arrested this morning in a border district of Songkhla province with 25 kilogrammes of marijuana, or ganja, they were taking to Malaysia. Police in Songkhla’s Sadao district said they received a tip off about the couple. Sadao police then intercepted them while they were boarding a local […]
A Nigerian man and Guinean woman were nabbed at Suvarnabhumi Airport with 4.6 kilograms of crystal meth, while a package containing 490 grams of raw opium bound for the United States was seized. Narcotics Suppression Police first arrested Nigerian Emerga Emmanuel Ogafor, 36, allegedly bound for Cambodia, and found two kilograms of crystal meth hidden […]
The use of Marijuana in some countries is either permitted or tolerated, however here in Thailand strict laws are in place to prevent the use of narcotics. A Dutch tourist found this out in the early hours of Saturday morning when he was arrested in possession of a block of Marijuana. A Police informant provided […]
Narcotics Suppression officers have arrested seven suspected drug traffickers in separate busts this week, seizing a combined eight kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, or “ice”, and 100,000 amphetamine pills. The seven include two Malaysian nationals, two Hmong, a Burmese, a Nigerian and a Cambodian, NSB chief Atithep Panjamanond said yesterday. Bangkok Post
