Overstay couple allegedly sent cannabis to Philippines
published : 11 Apr 2024 at 08:30
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
A Philippine couple have been arrested in Bangkok for allegedly posting 10 kilogrammes of cannabis back home with intent to sell it.
Immigration police arrested John Andrew Tiangson, 35, and his wife Eena Bianca Marie Cruz, 30, on Tuesday at a house on Soi On Nut 65, immigration police said on Wednesday.
Their arrest followed advice from authorities in the Philippines that customs officers had intercepted a parcel containing 10 kilogrammes of dried cannabis in February this year. The parcel had been sent from Thailand to Manila.
According to police, dried marijuana could sell for about 975 baht per gramme in the Philippines. The seized cannabis had an estimated street value of 10 million baht in Manila.
The package had been sent via a parcel service in Bangkok, he said.
Investigators learned that the parcel had been sent by a Philippine couple. Further checks found they had overstayed their visas by nine years.
The couple will face legal action and deportation and would be blacklisted by immigration for 10 years.
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- advice: an opinion or a suggestion about what somebody should do in a particular situation - คำแนะนำ
- authority (noun): a person or government agency who has the power to make decisions or enforce the law - เจ้าหน้าที่ผู้มีอำนาจ
- blacklist (verb): to put the name of a person, a company, a product or a country on a blacklist (a list of the names of people, companies, products or countries that an organization or a government considers unacceptable and that must be avoided) - ใส่ในบัญชีรายชื่อของคนที่ทำไม่ดี
- cannabis (noun): marijuana; a drug made from the dried leaves and flowers or resin of the hemp plant, which is smoked or eaten and which gives the user a feeling of being relaxed. Use of the drug is illegal in many countries. - กัญชา
- customs (noun): the checking and collecting of taxes on goods leaving or entering the country, carried out by the customs department - งานที่เกี่ยวข้องกับภาษีศุลกากร
- deportation: the process of forcing someone to leave a country, especially someone who has no legal right to be there or who has broken the law - การเนรเทศออกจากประเทศ
- intercept: to stop and catch something or someone before they are able to reach a particular place - สกัด
- overstay: stay in a country for longer than you are allowed to stay, not leaving when your visa to stay in the country ends -
- parcel: a package with something in it, sent through the mail, bigger than a letter - ไปรษณียภัณฑ์
- seize (verb): to take something using force - ยึด, จับกุม
- street value (noun): a price for which something that is illegal or has been obtained illegally can be sold -
