Police seize 221 kg of marijuana in Bangkok sting raid
Bangkok police seized 221 kg of dried marijuana bricks at a house in Nong Chok district on 15 May 2020 after a sting in which Manop Buakareem delivered 1 kg to undercover officers. Manop was charged with possessing a category-5 narcotic with intent to sell.
Police seized bricks of dried marijuana weighing 221 kg at a house in Lam Toi Ting subdistrict in Bangkok’s Nong Chok district on Friday evening.[1][2]The raid followed a sting operation earlier that day in which 46-year-old Manop Buakareem delivered 1 kg of marijuana to undercover police on Suwintawong Road and was arrested.[1][2]Officers of the Lam Phak She police station then raided the house where the stock was stored, tying the 221 kg hoard directly to the street arrest made hours earlier.[1][2]
Manop told police he stored the drugs for another man known only as Naf, who was supposed to collect them and pay him a storing fee.[1][2]He was charged with possessing a category-5 narcotic substance, marijuana, with the intention to sell and was taken into custody.[1]Police displayed the accused, pictured with a blurred face, alongside the confiscated drugs at the station on Friday evening.[1]The seizure was announced on Saturday.[1][2]
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Whether the 1 kg delivered to undercover officers is counted in the 221 kg seized at the house was not stated.
No arrest of the man known only as Naf, for whom Manop said he stored the drugs, was reported.
A press photo credited to The Nation Thailand was published with the report, but its direct image address could not be recovered, so no media entry was added.
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