Armed officials raid a central prison in Bangkok
Heavily-armed corrections officials raided a central prison for drug addicted in Bangkok on Thursday after receiving a tip-off inmates trade drug through mobile telephones, Corrections Department's chief Natthee Jitsawang said Thursday.
The armed officials raided the inmates' high-security dormitory in Central Correctional Institution for Drug Addicted at about 3pm. Chaos happened when the inmates saw the officials, an inmate was found trying to chew and swallow sim cards of mobile telephones.He said later that he managed to swallow three sim cards. After the raid, officials confiscated ten mobile phones, mostly new and expensive brands, as well as some sim cards. Nathee said that the raid was conducted after his office was alerted that some influential inmates managed to do drug business from their cells. The department will investigate how the prisoners smuggled the phones into the prison, he said. Police will check into call records of each seized sim in order to find out who outside the prison involved in the business. The Nation
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