Dutch retiree arrested with 'ice' in Pattaya
published : 6 Aug 2024 at 07:15
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiyot Pupattanapong
Pattaya police arrested a Dutch man, 63, for allegedly possessing crystal methamphetamine aka 'ice' and equipment suspected of being used to produce illegal drugs.
Police first searched a man identified only as Simon on a local street at 5.36pm on Sunday as he looked suspicious. They found two plastic packets of 'ice' or crystal methamphetamine with him.
In a search at his condominium, police saw a portable gas stove, chemicals, drug abuse equipment, a plastic sealing machine, a digital scale and cash.
The former Dutch soldier said he had 'ice' and was trying to make liquid ecstasy.
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Vocabulary
- abuse: the use of something in a bad, dishonest, or harmful way - การใช้ในทางที่ผิด
- crystal methamphetamine (noun): a white crystalline form of the drug methamphetamine that people take by inhaling through the nose, smoking it or injecting it with a needle -
- ecstasy (noun): an illegal drug, taken especially by young people at parties, clubs, etc. - ยาอี
- liquid: a substance that flows freely and is not a solid or a gas, for example water or oil - ของเหลว
- packet: a small paper or cardboard container in which a number of small objects are sold - ห่อของเล็กๆ
- retiree: a person who has stopped working because of their age - ผู้ที่หยุดทำงานแล้ว, ผู้ที่เกษียณแล้ว
- scale (noun): an instrument for weighing people or things - ตราชั่ง, เครื่องชั่ง
- soldier (n): a person who works in an army -
- stove: a machine or a piece of equipment that provides heat for cooking or heating a room - เตาทำอาหาร, เตาให้ความพร้อม
- suspicious: a feeling that someone or something cannot be trusted — - มีความสงสัย, ด้วยความสงสัย, สงสัย, พิรุธ
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