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Reminds me of rise against lyrics (not really talking about the uae but whatever): and the fight in the desert where progress stands still.
 
YaBa Bust & Ice in Thailand

Lots of ATS seized

Police land another huge drugs haul in latest raid
By DIEW KHONGSIN
THE NATION ON SUNDAY
Published on January 31, 2010




Police yesterday seized 1.6 million ya ba tablets and 2 kilograms of "ice" together worth about Bt30 million from a townhouse in Samut Prakan's Muang district.Ads by Google
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The huge haul was the latest in a series of drug raids over the past week that have netted more than 2.8 million methamphetamine pills.


Yesterday's raid was a follow-up to a crackdown in the Klong Toei district of Bangkok.


A Klong Toei raid on Thursday turned up 200,000 ya ba pills and a tablet-making device from Yongyut (also known as Prakob) Veeraphan, 44, and Phumin Klaikaeo, 45.


The raid led to the arrest on Friday of a man identified as Nanthaphong Rattanakornkaeojinda, 30, after police found more than 1 million ya ba tablets worth Bt200 million in his rented home in Samut Prakan's Bang Phli district.


The raid in Klong Toei also resulted in police shooting dead suspect Manop Changkhlaikhom, 39, on a Bangkok expressway and confiscating 50,000 ya ba pills hidden in his pickup on Friday.


Meanwhile, Nanthaphong confessed that another 1.6 million ya ba pills were hidden inside a two-storey townhouse in Rompho village on Thepharak Road.


Narcotics Suppression Bureau police and 50 commandos subsequently searched the townhouse yesterday, as well as another townhouse in the same village that they were informed Nanthaphong had rented to a man responsible for keeping the drugs.


They found the 1.6 million ya ba pills in the Rompho townhouse but nothing illicit in the second property. They did however find a rental contract identifying Phaisarn Phattanakhiri as the tenant. Police believe Phaisarn is connected with Nanthaphong, and that he fled the townhouse before they arrived.


Deputy national police chief General Priewphan Damapong said police had been following the gang for a month and that most of them were Lisu hilltribesmen who often changed their names. They come from the northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.


On learning the drugs were stashed at 10 locations, police initiated a series of raids.


Checkpoints on highways in Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai will be beefed up and suspect vehicles will be inspected carefully as part of the operation, he said.


Pol Lt-General Adithep Panjamanont, commander of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, said eight suspected members of the network had been arrested to date and another - the man shot in Bangkok on Friday - had died. They will issue an arrest warrant for another suspect who had fled.


Nanthaphong reportedly brought the drugs retrieved Friday and yesterday from a neighbouring country and hid them under tiles in a pickup.


Adithep attributed the recent higher degree of successful drug busts partially on an announcement by a neighbouring country that in 2014 it would be free of drug trafficking. He did not say which country had made the announcement.


This had pressured law-enforcement agencies to crack down on minority groups producing drugs on its border with Thailand.


Moreover, the suspects arrested in two drugs and weapons cases last month confessed they had exchanged their drugs for weapons for use in fighting the authorities cracking down on them.


Police knew more about the drugs network as a result, Adithep said.
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Meanwhile, Nanthaphong confessed that another 1.6 million ya ba pills were hidden inside a two-storey townhouse in Rompho village on Thepharak Road.

Must have been tortured to give up that information.
 
I feel kinda bad for the people caught in this bust..... im certain they will be executed as Thailand doesnt play when it comes to drugs
 
Does thailand still have the death penality for trafficking? I know they used to and knowing the rep of thai cops im sure these guys will be tortured. Granted torture is a pretty useless way of getting info off people usually. If you hit someone hard enough theyl tell you they assasinated Kennedy to get you to stop. So there going to say whatever it takes true or not.
 
Adithep attributed the recent higher degree of successful drug busts partially on an announcement by a neighbouring country that in 2014 it would be free of drug trafficking. He did not say which country had made the announcement.
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Mynamar, just a wild guess. The nationalist government probably wants to normalize relations with thailand and get more help to fight insurgent groups like the shan state army, ect... who finance their war against the Burmese government by making Ya Ba and growing poppies (to a much lesser extent). Wonder if Poppy growing is going to increase now that Afganistan has had such a dismal harvest of opium, despite what the government says, they might come in to fill the vacuum. Or maybe Laos or Cambodia.

At any rate, this shows the futility of the drug war. If people are willing to risk execution, torture, or incarceration in living hells to trafick in drugs because of the insane profit margin, drugs will never be eliminated by war and law enforcement.

In Dubai, there was a story of a women who had immigrated from an African nation facing the death penalty for selling a couple of joints to an undercover.

In Mexico, thousands have died thanks to drug prohibition, more than in the war in Iraq. 100 years of brainwashing is hard to undue and the UNODCP seems dead set on expanding law enforcement and international cooperation. The narco industrial complex is too strong world wide.
 
Detroit police seize nearly $2M in drugs, cash

DETROIT —
Detroit police say they've seized nearly $2 million in drugs and cash and made five arrests during three recent raids and a traffic stop.

Chief Warren Evans made the announcement on Monday, saying narcotics and uniformed officers recovered 48 pounds of marijuana, 27 ounces of heroin, 44 ounces of cocaine and $82,000 in cash during the raids and traffic stop between June 6-9.

Evans says this year's seizures have exceeded totals for all of 2009, in part because the department is working to crack down on mid-level drug dealers.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-drugseizure-detro,0,1422517.story

Wonder where he was going.
 
48 pounds of marijuana, 27 ounces of heroin, 44 ounces of cocaine and $82,000 in cash
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They said that's mid-level? Wouldn't that be closer to regional? Forgive me if I'm wrong but that sounds like a lot for small time.
 
Maybe they mean that as he's a guy between someone moving a few pounds and the guys moving hundreds of pounds?

I don't know much about the midwest trade, but Detroit could be a passing route if it's coming from or going to Canada. Also Chicago isn't too far off in the west and Cleveland to the southeast. All speculation though.
 
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Recovered? As in... got it back?
hmm... Interesting choice of words
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That's what I though, you know, since the government probably helped smuggle the heroin from Afganistan and cocaine from Colombia to fund their "war on drugs" which is more like "war to line our pockets with cash" 8). Fucking government.
 
Over 18 tons of drugs seized in San Bernardino County

After deputies confirmed Luevano's paperwork for the load in his truck was not in order, they opened the back of his tractor trailer and were overwhelmed by a powerful marijuana odor.

A further search yielded a huge amount of heat-sealed narcotics, including approximately 38,000 pounds of marijuana, 2,700 pounds of cocaine and 67 pounds of methamphetamine, deputies said. The drugs were valued at $45,000,000.

"This is one of the largest seizures in the county and I will make every effort to continue this aggressive fight against drug traffickers entering San Bernardino County," Hoops said.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-big-rig-drug-bust,0,5579972.story


These Mexican cartels are really taking over the country. The US just needs to legalize them all and focus on harm reduction. It seems like they never want this war to end. The Mexicans need to step their game up and stop with that black tar GARBAGE! put out some POWDER HOLMES...
 
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