NONTHABURI, Jan 31 (TNA) – A 47-year-old man came up with the idea of packaging methamphetamine (yabaa) pills into bags to “hang and sell” like snacks at a neighborhood store. In the end, he was caught and claimed to only sell to people close to him.
These are the yabaa pills that the police confiscated as evidence after raiding the seller, Mr. Rangsan, and a Cambodian buyer while they were trading drugs in front of a worker camp in Pak Kret District, Nonthaburi Province.
During a search, police found 192 meth pills, 9 bags of crystal meth also known as “ice” weighing 4.82 grams on Mr. Rangsan.
The Cambodian buyer had 6 meth pills on him. When the police took both of them to the hospital for drug testing, their urine tested positive for drugs. Initially, they were charged with selling and using illegal drugs.
Mr. Rangsan told the police that he normally works in construction and lives in a worker camp. He also works as a drug dealer for nearby workers and doesn’t sell to other people randomly.
He explained that he packaged the drugs in small plastic bags and hung them for easy selection, similar to how snack bags are displayed in stores.
He personally buys meth pills for 2,800 baht per bag, then divides them into bags of 10 pills, selling them for 30 baht per pill. As for crystal methamphetamine, he weighs it by the gram.
Meanwhile, the police checked his bank account and found that there was a monthly turnover of 400,000-500,000 baht, and there was still 80,000 baht left in the account.
However, the police are preparing to investigate and expand the search for accomplices in Mr. Rangsan’s drug trafficking in order to completely eliminate them. -819 (TNA)
