Nigerian drug dealer in Phuket arrested after client’s viral drug use video
Police arrested a Nigerian drug dealer in Phuket after a viral video showed one of his clients using cocaine by the roadside.
The news Facebook page โหดจัง จังหวัดภูเก็ต (meaning Phuket is so brutal) shared the video of two foreigners using drugs by the roadside on March 6, accompanied by a caption that read, “What are you doing, bro?” In the video, the two foreigners are allegedly seen taking turns snorting a powdered drug.
Following the release of the viral footage, a Swiss man, Sascha Teodorovic, turned himself in at Kamala Police Station on March 10, admitting that he was one of the people featured in the video. Police conducted a drug test on him, which returned a positive result.
Teodorovic confessed that he and another foreigner were snorting cocaine, which he bought from a Nigerian man identified as 32 year old Chimaraoke Wisdom Mabanaso.
To arrest the Nigerian dealer, police posed as a client and arranged a meeting with Mabanaso at around 9pm on March 11.
Officers successfully apprehended him during the operation, seizing 0.82 grammes of cocaine. Police also confiscated his assets in accordance of the law, including his black Mazda 2 sedan and an iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Mabanaso was charged under Section 146 of the Narcotics Control Act for producing, importing, exporting, distributing, or possessing Category 2 narcotics.
The penalty for this offence is up to 15 years’ imprisonment and a fine ranging from 200,000 to 1.5 million baht.
Several Nigerian drug dealers were arrested in Thailand recently. On March 4, police arrested two Nigerian nationals at a condominium in Bangkok following the arrest of a Thai girlfriend of one of the men, who was caught attempting to smuggle cocaine into Japan.
In February, another Nigerian drug dealer was arrested on Koh Pha Ngan, an island in the southern province of Surat Thani. Officers seized cocaine worth 240,000 baht from him.
During the same month, the Phuket Immigration Office arrested a Nigerian dealer who was found in possession of 7.2 grammes of cocaine. He claimed to have obtained the cocaine from an unidentified foreign man, arranging to collect the illegal substance on Bang Tao Beach.
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