A 29-year-old Nigerian,
Onyejiekwe Morgan Chinemerem, has been arrested by the Thailand
Metropolitan Police in his rented room in Bangkok for allegedly
masterminding the sale of crystal methamphetamine and cocaine.
He was
arrested in a sting operation with 31.47 grams of crystal
methamphetamine or “ice” and 889.63 grams of cocaine as revealed by
Metropolitan
Police Commissioner Police Lt Gen Sriwarah Rangsitpramkul and Police
Colonel Suthep Chanasit, an inspector of the Metropolitan Police
Division 4, in a press conference at 4 pm on Tuesday, 29th of April.
According
to Suthep, the Nigeria man was arrested at the stairway between the 8th
and 9th floors of HR Residence in the Bang Kapi District while trying
to flee.
He said
the police got tips that Nigerian men living on the 9th floor of
Building 17 of the HR Residence have been involved in the sale of hard
drugs by hiring a Thai man, who was identified only as ‘M’ as their
courier/delivery boy.
Thus,
the police set up a sting operation that involved police informant
getting across to M asking him to purchase the crystal meth and cocaine
from him.
M then
told the Nigerian men that a customer would like to buy 30 grammes of
crystal meth and 200 grams of cocaine for 460,000 bahts (about $14,000
or almost N3 million) said Suthep.
M led
the detectives to the room of the Nigerian men to buy the drugs and it
was there the police found two Nigerians in the room.
Once
the police identified them, two Nigerians ran out of the room, one fled
the scene and Chinemerem was arrested at the stairway and he later
confessed that he and his friend were responsible for smuggling the
drugs to sell mainly using post parcels.
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