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Heroin bust
November 26: Police arrested Ms. Buathong Wankrom, 43,
for selling heroin to an undercover police officer.
Initial police investigations revealed that heroin was being sold from a
house on Soi Yen Sabai. The Crime Suppression Division organised a sting
operation using marked 100 baht notes to make a purchase of heroin from
Wankrom at the above mentioned residence.
Upon searching Wankrom, police found approximately .60 grams of heroin in
her underclothing, and an additional 22 two inch long coffee vials full of
the drug in her house. The total value of the bust was approximately 10,000
baht.
The woman confessed that her husband had sold heroin and was now residing in
Chonburi Prison. She said didn’t know what else to do with her husband in
prison and her without a profession. She admitted selling heroin to her
husband’s former
customers.
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