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KANCHANABURI: Authorities seized contraband cigarettes and tobacco worth more than 800,000 baht smuggled through the Three Pagodas Pass border crossing in Sangkhla Buri district on Sunday evening. Provincial excise officials, soldiers, police, defence volunteers and local officials intercepted a pickup truck on its way from the border pass at a checkpoint
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Police arrested an Indian tourist at the Suvarnabhumi Airport on Thursday after six tortoises and three Meerkat babies were found hidden inside his suitcase. Kamal Batsha Thameem Ansari, 33, was arrested when he was about to board Thai Airways International Flight TG337 to Chennai. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
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Twenty-eight Cambodians and a Thai were arrested yesterday and charged with illegal entry, and cutting rosewood trees in Thap Larn national park in Nadee district of Prachinburi province. The Cambodians were rounded up by a combined force of police, soldiers, national park officials and defense volunteers after they fled on foot
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PRACHINBURI — A soldier moonlighting as a cigarette smuggler hit and killed a man crossing a street last night while escaping customs officers in a car in Prachinburi city. Army 2nd Lt. Narong Srisak was speeding when he hit Chiad Plengplangsri, who was walking across the road Thursday night at the
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Immigration police officers will be strict about people carrying “Child Angel” dolls due to fears they could be used to smuggle contraband such as drugs, the national police chief said Monday. Police General Jakthip Chaichinda said that criminals could hide illicit substances in such dolls when travelling. Read more: The Nation
Read More A FRENCHMAN, wanted in France for allegedly conspiring with others to move illicit drugs around Europe, has been arrested in Bangkok, Pol Maj-General Apichat Suriboonya, chief of the Police Foreign Affairs Division, told the press yesterday. Also present was the French Embassy's police attache Catherine Occhini. Andre Cabau, 39, who reportedly
Read More SA KAEO - Up to 100 turtles and a cobra were abandoned by the side of a road after police stopped a smuggling truck headed to the Thai-Cambodian border. The officers stopped a pickup truck at a checkpoint on Road No.359 in Muang district yesterday and asked to see the driver’s
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PHUKET: Following the anti-drug blitz by Kathu police over the weekend, Tah Chatchai police arrested three people attempting to bring drugs onto the island by public transport yesterday (Sept 13). The Kathu police arrested 10 drug suspects, including a Frenchman, and seized a variety of drugs in a blitz that began
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