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‘Biggest’ Israeli drug dealer on Koh Phangan arrested
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 14/02/2026
» SURAT THANI - A major Israeli drug dealer, who operated out of the restaurant he owned on Koh Phangan, was arrested on Friday with narcotics worth over 50 million baht seized, authorities said.
Record drug haul in Songkhla worth B117 million
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 15/03/2025
» SONGKHLA - Authorities have seized about 200 kilogrammes of heroin and 2.7 million speed pills with a combined worth of more than 117 million baht and arrested two suspected drug couriers in the largest-ever drug haul in this southern province.
Teen arrested for theft of rail track bolts
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 13/12/2022
» SONGKHLA: A young man arrested for stealing 80 bolts and fastening plates from a railway track allegedly told police he sold them to a scrap dealer for money to buy drugs.
Man paid by fugitive son-in-law to deliver drugs
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 04/04/2022
» SONGKHLA: A 53-year-old man caught with 300 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine in his pickup told police he was being paid to deliver the drugs by his son-in-law and a woman who had both fled to Laos.
Fugitive arrested in Songkhla swamp
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 05/05/2021
» SONGKHLA: A suspect in the seizure of 10 kilogrammes of crystal meth and a million methamphetamine pills in Nakhon Si Thammarat has been arrested in Songkhla after fleeing into a swamp.
3 drug couriers arrested, 200kg of crystal meth seized following gunfire
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 21/10/2020
» PHATTHALUNG: Three drug couriers were arrested, one of them wounded, and 200kg of crystal methamphetamine seized following an exchange of gunfire with police in Pa Bon district on Wednesday.
Drug suspect slain in shootout with soldiers in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 08/06/2019
» SONGKHLA: A suspected drug trader was shot dead inside his pickup truck and some speed pills seized after an exchange of gunfire with soldiers as he tried to speed through a military checkpoint in Saba Yoi district on Friday night.
Five sentenced for stealing pickups used as car bombs
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 12/02/2019
» SONGKHLA: Five men have been sentenced for holding up a car dealer in 2017 and stealing five pickup trucks for use as car bombs.
Man arrested with 50,000 meth pills in Hat Yai
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 13/01/2019
» SONGKHLA: A man was arrested for possession of 50,000 methamphetamine pills in a house search in Hat Yai district on Sunday morning.