Sunday, 13 January 2008

Eight-man gang of drug dealers arrested

General News
Sunday January 13, 2008

A major leader of a drug-dealing gang in the Ratchadapisek area was arrested along with seven members of the gang yesterday. Pol Maj-Gen Worasak Noppasittiporn, commander of Metropolitan Police Area 2, said Sanya Lumsiri, the gang leader, and seven others were charged with possessing narcotic drugs for sale.

Police seized 4,450 methamphetamine pills, 77 grammes of crystal methamphetamine and 1,017 ecstasy pills as well as a 9mm pistol and a rifle during the raid.

The suspects admitted they sold the drugs, which were smuggled from Cambodia through Sa Kaeo province, to teenagers who frequented entertainment venues on Ratchadapisek road.

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