Thai police seize 3.4 million yaba pills

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B1.02bn of meth pills seized

Published: 24 Feb 2013 at 11.49
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Police seized a total of 3.4 million methamphetamine pills, worth more than 1.02 billion baht in street value, in three major drug busts, Pol Maj Gen Surapol Thuanthong, deputy commissioner of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, said on Sunday.

In the northern border province of Chiang Rai, a pickup driver drove through a traffic checkpoint without stopping. The driver then abandoned the pickup truck in a forest.

Inside the vehicle, police found 2.2 million yaba pills and 156 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamines, or ya ice.

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dao
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Discussion 14 : 25 Feb 2013 at 12.3214
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Maybe have at unusually rich police and army living in the regions where drugs are being smuggled in .It isnt that hard is it ?
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Discussion 13 : 25 Feb 2013 at 10.1813
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Driving through a checkpoint and getting caught with this amount, could've been a decoy to allow a far biger shipment through at another point? For the players this would've been a drop in the ocean.....
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Discussion 12 : 25 Feb 2013 at 09.5812
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How do you know this isn't part of the distribution network?
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Discussion 11 : 25 Feb 2013 at 08.1011
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First, thank you BP for making it clear that these enormous amounts of drug are evaluated by their 'street value' that is, per pill cost when sold. This is very different from the cost of the big haul (much less).

Second, I agree with my fellow posters: while I respect the police sucess in each incident, these examples of pre-Songhkla smuggling mostly show just how much IS moving through and to the South where the price rises as criminals reach BKK.

Yes, D@2, "Where are the bosses?" Not caught! Just the lower ranking couriers...
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Discussion 10 : 25 Feb 2013 at 07.5210
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The masterminds and top level people will NEVER be caught or convicted. There are too many levels between them and the couriers and FAR too many high up people in uniforms who simply CANNOT allow it to happen as they will not survive either.
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Discussion 9 : 25 Feb 2013 at 05.589
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Narcotic is a huge business to harvest by specific group of power in the land.

Catching selected smugglers is no different that paddling a boat to correct dead bodies that are floating down the stream.

Those who caused the bodies to fall into the water and float downstream remain rich and living in their mansions comfortably.
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Discussion 8 : 25 Feb 2013 at 00.268
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They haven't seen the movie "Smokey and the Bandit"... It is an example how to smuggle.
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Discussion 7 : 25 Feb 2013 at 00.017
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Jeez that's a lot of gear, that is going to hurt some financier's profit margins. But it's a loss they can make very easily cos they still have the money to remain untouchable

Just very unjust that yet more low level couriers who are clueless to the real consequences of their actions are now staring the obligatory 100 years in jail square in the face. Very sad.

A good bust on paper sure, but some wider perspective is surely needed now.. same bust different day.
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Discussion 6 : 24 Feb 2013 at 23.406
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At least...we still have a good cop more than a bad cop. Do u think so?
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Discussion 5 : 24 Feb 2013 at 16.135
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Yet another massive proof of the total failure of current Thai drug policy.

This much is getting caught out of how much?

Still, it all helps the usual suspects - corrupt officials and mafia scum.
Not a single decent Thai citizen has been benefited by these latest extraganzas of ego at public expense, and Thai society has been further harmed as corruption is encourage, drug prices and crime is kept artificially high, and treatment is made more difficult.

Is there any better example of immorality and insanity parading in the gaudy get up of deadly hypocrisy and unreason?
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