BANGKOK, June 3 (TNA) -- Police at Thailand's main airport arrested two Thai women Thursday for smuggling crystal methamphetamine weighing some 6.4kg with a street value of over half a million US dollars -- Bt18 million (about US$560,000) --and two male tourists, a Japanese and a German, were arrested for carrying sex enhancement drug Viagra and 13 grammes of marijuana at the Aranyaprathet border crossing with Cambodia.
Arrested at Suvarnbhumi Airport in transit from Ghana to Cambodia by Ethiopian Airlines, the two Thai women were transporting commercial scale quantities of 'ice' destined for sale on the streets of Phnom Penh and in Cambodia's casinos.
Pol Gen Amaretrit Wattanaviboon, deputy commissioner of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau told a news conference about the arrests of Siriwan Thawaisap, 27 and Romathee Saelee, 37, who carried the crystal meth for sale in Cambodia.
Packages of crystal meth, also known as ‘ice’, each weighing 3.2kg, were found in each woman’s luggage but they denied knowing one another. They said they were hired by Africans to smuggle the drug from Ghana to Phnom Penh in exchange for Bt34,000 accommodation at a tourist site and Bt50,000 pay.
The police found that drug transit route was changed from direct smuggling into Thailand to Cambodia for trading before it will be later smuggled to Thailand to avoid police surveillance.
The Thai authorities warned Thai women with African friends to check the record of their friends who convinced them to travel overseas as they can be later forced into a drug smuggling ring.
As the Thai women attempted to carry 'ice' to Cambodia, two tourists, one Japanese and the other German, were apprehended by the Thai authorities for carrying small amounts of drugs for personal use.
Viagra pills are a controlled substanced in Thailand and tourists carrying the drug are subject to arrest.
An elderly Japanese man with 13 grammes of marijuana and 16 Viagra pills was arrested at the Sa Kaeo province border crossing as he attempted to enter Thailand.
According to officials, 63 year-old Japanese traveller Hoshino Tomio was found with two plastic bags totaling 13.73 grammes of dried marijuana, two rolls of ready-to-smoke cannabis in the form of cigarettes, and 16 Viagra pills.
Mr Tomio confessed he had bought the drugs while visiting Cambodia's Phnom Penh and took for his stay in Thailand.
At the same 62-year-old German touris Max Albert Winkler was apprehended with 72 Viagra tablets hidden in his suitcase.
He confessed he had bought the drugs in Phnom Penh for personal use. (TNA)
Arrested at Suvarnbhumi Airport in transit from Ghana to Cambodia by Ethiopian Airlines, the two Thai women were transporting commercial scale quantities of 'ice' destined for sale on the streets of Phnom Penh and in Cambodia's casinos.
Pol Gen Amaretrit Wattanaviboon, deputy commissioner of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau told a news conference about the arrests of Siriwan Thawaisap, 27 and Romathee Saelee, 37, who carried the crystal meth for sale in Cambodia.
Packages of crystal meth, also known as ‘ice’, each weighing 3.2kg, were found in each woman’s luggage but they denied knowing one another. They said they were hired by Africans to smuggle the drug from Ghana to Phnom Penh in exchange for Bt34,000 accommodation at a tourist site and Bt50,000 pay.
The police found that drug transit route was changed from direct smuggling into Thailand to Cambodia for trading before it will be later smuggled to Thailand to avoid police surveillance.
The Thai authorities warned Thai women with African friends to check the record of their friends who convinced them to travel overseas as they can be later forced into a drug smuggling ring.
As the Thai women attempted to carry 'ice' to Cambodia, two tourists, one Japanese and the other German, were apprehended by the Thai authorities for carrying small amounts of drugs for personal use.
Viagra pills are a controlled substanced in Thailand and tourists carrying the drug are subject to arrest.
An elderly Japanese man with 13 grammes of marijuana and 16 Viagra pills was arrested at the Sa Kaeo province border crossing as he attempted to enter Thailand.
According to officials, 63 year-old Japanese traveller Hoshino Tomio was found with two plastic bags totaling 13.73 grammes of dried marijuana, two rolls of ready-to-smoke cannabis in the form of cigarettes, and 16 Viagra pills.
Mr Tomio confessed he had bought the drugs while visiting Cambodia's Phnom Penh and took for his stay in Thailand.
At the same 62-year-old German touris Max Albert Winkler was apprehended with 72 Viagra tablets hidden in his suitcase.
He confessed he had bought the drugs in Phnom Penh for personal use. (TNA)
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