There’s been another methamphetamine bust in Phuket’s major city district this week. Border Patrol Police arrested a person in the Rassada sub-district. They seized 10,504 meth tablets from him, in addition to 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 costs of illegal possession of Category 1 drugs with intent to promote.
This news comes after police found some meth tablets in a man’s minivan in Patong earlier this week. Items found in the vehicle included nine meth pills, a gun, 10 bullets, a knife, and an axe in a man’s automobile in Patong.
Phuket has had a few meth busts this 12 months. In August, police seized 2,770 meth drugs, together with roughly 1,293 grammes of crystal meth, from a man in the principle city district. He was allegedly half of a larger drug network, which included dealers in other 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 other meth busts in the same month.
Meth continues to be the preferred, low cost, and available illicit narcotic in Thailand and throughout Southeast Asia, the place the artificial drug commerce is booming.
Last 12 months alone, more than one billion meth tablets had been seized within the east and Southeast Asia, based on a report released by the United Nations. Try before you buy is taken into account the “drug of best concern” in the region by the UN..