14 foreign nationals arrested in Bangkok cannabis warehouse raid
Immigration police and narcotics officials raided a cannabis storage and packing warehouse in Sam Wa Tawan Tok, Bangkok, on 31 October 2026, arresting 14 foreign nationals. Two Vietnamese suspects faced drug and immigration charges, while 12 other Vietnamese and Myanmar nationals were charged under immigration and work laws.
🇹🇭 Sam Wa Tawan Tok, Khlong Sam Wa, Bangkok · Thailand
- Arrested
- 14
- Charged
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Police arrested 14 foreign nationals after searching a warehouse used to store
and package cannabis in Sam Wa Tawan Tok, Khlong Sam Wa district, Bangkok.[1]
The raid took place on 31 October 2026.[2] Immigration Bureau investigators
conducted the search with Thailand’s Office of the Narcotics Control Board and
Nimit Mai Police Station.[1]
Two detainees were Vietnamese nationals, and one was wanted by Vietnamese
authorities under an arrest warrant in a drug-related case.[2]
Police sent all 14 detainees and the seized items to Nimit Mai investigators for
legal proceedings.[2] Officials said they were continuing to trace the
warehouse’s financiers and other people involved, and to investigate whether
Thai nationals had been used as nominee shareholders for foreign nationals.[2]
Sources
- สตม. ผนึกกำลัง ป.ป.ส.-สน.นิมิตรใหม่ บุกตรวจโกดังกัญชา บ.นอมินี รวบต่างด้าวรวม 14 ราย. Matichon Online, 31 October 2026. In Thai.
- สืบ สตม.แท็กทีม! บุกทลายโกดังบรรจุกัญชารวบ 14 ต่างด้าว-ผงะเจอผู้ต้องหาหนีหมายจับเวียดนาม. Naewna, 31 October 2026. In Thai.
Open questions the AI reported
- No cannabis weight or plant count was reported, and the amounts of ice and yaba seized were not quantified.
- The detainees’ names and the outcomes of the criminal and immigration proceedings are not reported.
- The accounts do not say whether this raid was connected to the 19 October Bang Khen warehouse raid.
- Naewna’s embedded images have no readable captions or alt text, so only the three event photos identifiable on Matichon are listed.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Naewna: Officers found concealed ice and yaba during the search and charged the two Vietnamese suspects with jointly possessing Category 1 drugs without authorization and with immigration-law offences.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Naewna: The other 12 detainees were Vietnamese and Myanmar nationals charged with immigration and work offences, including unauthorized entry or residence, overstay and working without a permit.
