17-year-old caught with B100m of drugs

Packages containing speed pills, crystal meth, ecstasy and ketamine worth about 100 million baht on the streets on display at a police press briefing at the Metropolitan Police Bureau on Friday. (Police photo)
Packages containing speed pills, crystal meth, ecstasy and ketamine worth about 100 million baht on the streets on display at a police press briefing at the Metropolitan Police Bureau on Friday. (Police photo)

A 17-year-old was arrested and methamphetamine pills, crystal meth, ecstasy and ketamine worth around 100 million baht in all seized at an apartment building in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao district on Wednesday night.

The young suspect was caught outside an apartment building at about 10pm on Wednesday, police told a news briefing on Friday. 

They said the youth's arrest followed an investigation which found a major drug syndicate was operating in Bangkok that provided drugs for clients in Chatuchak, Lat Phrao, Kannayao and Min Buri districts and nearby areas. 

The trail led to the young suspect and the apartment building. 

The youth was shadowed and eventually detained in front of his accommodation with a bag containing 4,000 methamphetamine pills and 3 kilogrammes of crystal meth.  

A search of his apartment room found around 8.6 million speed pills, 37kg of crystal meth, 2,822 ecstasy pills, 38kg of ketamine flakes and 569 bottles of liquid ketamine, worth at least 100 million baht in total on the streets. 

The suspect allegedly confessed under questioning that he had worked as a courier, delivering drugs to clients, for two months and was paid 10,000-20,000 baht for each delivery he made. 

Illicit drugs of various kinds worth about 100 million baht were found in these packages at an apartment room in Lat Phrao district, Bangkok, on Wednesday night. (Police photo)

He was drawn into it by a high school friend, but had himself never been involved with drugs.

All drugs had been smuggled to Bangkok from the North, police said. Investigators believed the room had been used to store drugs for at least a year. 

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Vocabulary

  • courier: a person or company whose job is to take packages, important papers or, in this case, illegal drugs, somewhere - ผู้ส่งสาร
  • shadow: to follow and watch somebody closely and often secretly - ติดตามอย่างใกล้ชิด
  • smuggle: to take things or people to or from a place secretly and often illegally - ลักลอบนำเข้า/ออก
  • suspect: a person who is thought to have committed a crime - ผู้ต้องสงสัย
  • syndicate: a group of people or companies who work together and help each other in order to achieve a particular aim - สมาคม, องค์การ, สหการ , การรวมกลุ่มเป็นสมาคม
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