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  • Dealer busted after kratom smuggled into Phuket as ‘fresh vegetables’ | Thaiger

    Dealer busted after kratom smuggled into Phuket as ‘fresh vegetables’

    PHUKET: Phuket Police acting on a tip-off yesterday arrested a dealer and seized 54kg of kratom leaves from an address in Cherng Talay. Col Jirasak Siemsak received the tip-off at about 5pm and quickly put together an investigation team under the command of Maj Pongnarin Suthin. On arrival at a house on Soi Pasak 4, off the Baan Don-Cherng Talay…

  • Phuket hacks back drug “growers’ in Thalang | Thaiger

    Phuket hacks back drug “growers’ in Thalang

    PHUKET: Thalang police and district officers hacked open a path for progress in the war on drugs in Phuket by cutting down more than 60 kratom trees in Srisoonthorn yesterday. Despite the trees being native to Southeast Asia, their leaves have been designated a controlled substance, in the same category as cannabis, since promulgation of the Kratom Act in 1943.…

  • Phuket Police bust heroin dealers in Cherng Talay | Thaiger

    Phuket Police bust heroin dealers in Cherng Talay

    PHUKET: Police in Phuket yesterday arrested a heroin dealer from Narathiwat, in Thailand’s troubled Deep South, seizing more than 80 grams of the drug as well as a stash of dried marijuana from one of his agents.The arrest was announced at a press conference led by Cherng Talay Police Superintendent Jirasak Siangsak yesterday morning. Col Jirasak presented to the press…