A Nigerian man, beforehand arrested for drug-related offences and deported from Thailand, was arrested yesterday by officers from the Phuket Provincial Immigration Office and Chalong Police Station for his drug dealing and romance scam actions in Phuket.
According to the police report, the forty 12 months outdated Nigerian, Harrison Shinonzo Onyema, was deported in 2018 for overstaying his visa and selling cocaine. However, he re-entered the country illegally by crossing the border from Cambodia and hiding in a house in the Rawai sub-district of Phuket.
Onyema dedicated the identical crime again by selling cocaine to people in the province and operating a romance rip-off. He created a faux profile on Facebook, pretending to be a beautiful and rich girl, and deceived Thai males by promising to share his riches in the event that they married him. Once the victims have been satisfied, he would tell them that he had sent them items or money, but they wanted to pay taxes. Those who paid the taxes found out too late that the cash went into Onyema’s pocket and never received any parcels.
Furthermore, Onyema also lured Thai women to work for him. He used their identities to hire a house, or automobile, register Thai cellular SIM playing cards, and open bank accounts. However, he didn’t use any of the services and merely hid in the home.
The Thai police acquired a tip-off and raided his home yesterday. They knocked on the door, however Onyema didn’t reply. When he lastly opened the door for the officers, he could not present his entry doc and visa. The officers searched the home, but they found no unlawful substances. According to Endorsed , Onyema had flushed the toilet a quantity of instances before opening the door to the police. The officers believed that he had destroyed all the medicine by throwing them into the bathroom.
As a end result, the officers could not seize any evidence, and costs in opposition to Onyema weren’t but issued. The officers would conduct more investigations into his felony actions and gather proof before continuing with expenses.
Two weeks ago, Thai and German drug sellers were arrested for smuggling medicine into Koh Phra Ngan, an island in the southern province of Surat Thani. They were arrested after they went to pick up the parcel from Germany which was a scented candle filled with 1,370 ecstasy tablets.
A week earlier than that incident, the officers from the Airport Interdiction Task Force (AITF) arrested a Kenyan girl at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok after discovering 2,353 grammes of cocaine was hidden in her baggage..