DRUGS SMUGGLING

A Guinean man arrested for possessing drugs



Police on Monday arrested a man from Guinea for having in possession 850 grams of cocaine worth about Bt3 million during a raid at a house in Soi Ramkhamhaeng 81/4.

Following a tip-off that an African man was selling drugs to other African tourists in the area, police apprehended Mamadouba Camara, 43, who had entered Thailand from Hong Kong on August 10, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lt Gen Santhan Chayanont told a press conference.

The suspect reportedly confessed he smuggled the drugs by swallowing a package of drug into his stomach and later taking laxative to retrieve the drug.

The drugs would be sold at Bt3,000 per gram in the market. Police will hunt for more such drugs mules and dealers who sold the drugs in in Nana, Lumpini and Sukhumvit areas, said Santhan.

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