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Cops warn parcel firms over drug smuggling
Online Reporters, Published on 22/07/2019
» Police have warned courier firms to be more stringent in monitoring parcels they deliver because more illicit drugs are being trafficked via mail.
Reality of prisons
News, Postbag, Published on 22/07/2019
» As a former guest of the Department of Corrections I would like to respond to the editorial, "Hellish jails do not cut crime", (Editorial, July 13).
Nurse, boyfriend held in drug bust
News, Published on 04/05/2019
» PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: A nurse and her boyfriend have been arrested and drugs worth over 15 million baht seized, police said yesterday.
Border cops play key role in drug busts
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 01/04/2019
» More than 61 million speed pills and 12 tonnes of marijuana were intercepted by border patrol police in the first three months of this year.
Myanmar police seize massive haul of meth pills
AFP, Published on 04/03/2019
» YANGON: Myanmar authorities seized more than 10 million meth pills worth US$13.3 million (423 million baht) over the weekend, police said Monday, another massive haul in a country widely believed to be the world's largest methamphetamine producer.
Major drug busts in Northeast
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 03/02/2019
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Major drug hauls involving 760,000 methamphetamine pills and 500 kilogrammes of compressed marijuana have been made by police under the Region 3 Provincial Police Bureau, deputy police chief Pol Gen Chalermkiat Srivorakhan said at a briefing on Sunday.
Foreign lawbreakers caught in busts
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/02/2019
» A former head of the Czech SWAT team, an Italian national, and three Korean men have been arrested in separate criminal cases that took place inside and outside the country, according to Immigration Bureau (IB) chief Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn.
Cheaper precursors fuelling speed glut
Published on 24/11/2018
» Taiwanese chemists are a driving force behind the glut of methamptetamine flooding the Mekong region after they tweaked the recipe to dodge controls on other precursor chemicals, authorities say.
Local chief caught in drug busts
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/11/2018
» Nine suspects, among them one local community leader, were arrested in three drug crackdowns during the past week, the Narcotics Suppression Bureau revealed yesterday.
Double-faced drugs policy
News, Editorial, Published on 20/11/2018
» The government has become somewhat schizophrenic about its policies on banned drugs. It has sent mixed signals about the path to legalising medical marijuana. Providing a programme leading to the needed reform of law on illicit drugs is even less clear. In just the past few weeks, senior officials and ministers have indicated, rather, that they expect to renew and redoubled the "war on drugs" policies that have failed so badly.