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 copied tactics used in […]
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 licence and inspect the […]
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 on Friday. Read more: […]
NONG KHAI — A Christian missionary from the United States was arrested Monday for smuggling seven North Koreans into Thailand. Police Col. Pallop Suriyakul, commander of the Nong Khai Immigration Police, said yesterday the arrest came after police were alerted 17 June that the North Koreans – six men and one woman – had crossed […]
A British fugitive who allegedly masterminded a cigarette-smuggling ring that cost the UK government £2 million in lost tax revenue in 2008 was captured in Hua Hin on Wednesday. Paul Joyce, of Northumberland in northeast England, was apprehended by Special Branch Police officers at a parking lot at the Sea-Cret Hua Hin hotel in the […]
CHAI NAT — Two Thai men were arrested as they attempted to allegedly smuggle 68 illegal Myanmar migrant workers into the country on Monday. The suspects – Somnuak Thamrongsak, 48, from Nonthaburi, and Preecha Singyoo, 50, from Nakhon Sawan – were apprehended while transporting the migrants on two vans. Read more: Bangkok Post
PATHUM THANI, Jan 13 – The Department of Livestock Development burnt 85 tons of smuggled carcasses and meat to control diseases and maintain the standard of Thai imports and exports. The destruction took place yesterday at a livestock department facity in Pathum Thani’s Bang Kradi sub-district. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, Jan 8 – The Royal Thai Army affirmed that its 2nd Army Region Command and local administrative offices would work to their best ability to prevent the trafficking of Siamese Rosewood, after a complaint suggested that officials have neglected their duties. Army spokesman Col Winthai Suwaree confirmed, after a complaint to the Department of […]
