Pol General Pongpat Pongcharoen, secretary of the Office of Narcotics Control Board, said yesterday that officials had arrested four drug dealers and seized 888,000 amphetamine tablets and three vehicles being used to deliver drugs to Chiang Rai in four separate busts. Pa Daet district police set up a checkpoint on Mae Loi-Mae Rai Road. Drug […]
NONG KHAI, Nov 12 – Four alleged smugglers, two Thais and two Lao nationals, were arrested in Thailand’s northeastern province of Nong Khai with exotic Siamese Rosewood in two pickup trucks. Provincial forest protection unit head Rasamee Nanthan in Nong Khai and local police confiscated three planks of Siamese rosewood 40 centimetres wide, 13 cm […]
The Ranong provincial administration has joined forces with six other agencies to strengthen the guarding of the province’s border in an attempt to prevent the smuggling of foreign workers and Rohingyas into the kingdom, the governor said Monday. Ranong Governor Pirasak Hinmuangkao, who is also the director of the Ranong office of the Internal Security […]
BANGKOK, Aug 3 – A Thai warehouse for terracotta pots was searched by police, claimed as a transit point for illicit drugs packaging for further smuggling to Australia. National police chief Prewpan Dhamapong said Thursday evening that the Thai police were contacted by Australian authorities on Monday about drugs hidden in a shipment of two […]
A SCOT suspected of running an international trafficking racket has been deported from Thailand. John Alty, 57, is believed to have masterminded the smuggling of Sri Lankans and Iranians into Australia and New Zealand. Read more: dailyrecord.co.uk
PHUKET, 12 July 2012 (NNT) – The Customs Department has successfully intercepted an attempt to smuggle oil worth several millions of baht into Thailand. Director of Investigation and Suppression Bureau Rakop Srisupaat said on Wednesday that the Customs Department has joined the Royal Thai Army Region 4 in arresting a Thai-national oil tanker called “Nok […]
June 26, 2012: Saigon, Vietnam Ms. Preeyanooch Phuttharaksa a Thai college student from Bangkok, 23 was convicted to death for drug trafficking. It was reported that Ms. Phuttharaksa was paid 2,570 USD by a Nigerian trafficking ring to transport 3.000 gram of methamphetamine from Benin to Vietnam. She was arrested at Ho Chi Minh airport […]
BANGKOK, May 26 — Thai Customs Department officials on Saturday rescued 138 endangered pangolins from a syndicate of wildlife smugglers and arrested one suspect in Chumphon as the scaly ant-eaters were enroute to the northeastern province of Nong Khai. The suspect, who was identified as Chumphon resident Mr Pracha Ramai, 22, was arrested while he […]
