There’s been another methamphetamine bust in Phuket’s major city district this week. Border Patrol Police arrested a man in the Rassada sub-district. They seized 10,504 meth tablets from him, along with crystal meth.
The police arrested Ban at the entrance of Soi Bang She Lao on Thep Kasattri Road, The Phuket Express reported. They then introduced him to Phuket City Police Station to face charges of illegal possession of Category 1 medication with intent to sell.
This news comes after police found some meth drugs in a man’s minivan in Patong earlier this week. Items discovered in the car included 9 meth pills, a gun, 10 bullets, a knife, and an axe in a man’s car in Patong.
Phuket has had a number of meth busts this year. In August, police seized 2,770 meth drugs, together with roughly 1,293 grammes of crystal meth, from a man in the main metropolis district. He was allegedly half of a bigger drug community, which included sellers in different provinces. He admitted to police that he was paid 20,000 baht every time he transported medicine and that he had accomplished so 3 times. This was on high of a few different meth busts in the same month.
Meth continues to be the most well-liked, cheap, and readily available illicit narcotic in Thailand and throughout Southeast Asia, the place the artificial drug trade is booming.
Last yr alone, a couple of billion meth pills have been seized within the east and Southeast Asia, based on a report launched by the United Nations. Insider is taken into account the “drug of best concern” in the region by the UN..