Don Mueang police and related agencies raided a four-storey commercial building in Soi Cherdwutthakat 9, in a prominent cosmetics market area of Don Mueang district, Bangkok, at 2pm on 19 February 2025, acting on complaints that foreign nationals in the building were cultivating cannabis and causing a nuisance.[1][2] Officers carried a Criminal Court search warrant dated 18 February, entered from the rear after no one answered, and arrested two Vietnamese men and one Swedish man on the fourth floor.[1][2]
Inside, officers found large suitcases of dried cannabis flowers on the first floor and bags of cannabis on the mezzanine, while the second floor served as a packaging area with vacuum sealers, digital scales and packed bags of buds.[1][2] The third and fourth floors had been fitted for cultivation with irrigation and artificial lighting, but no live plants were found.[1][2] Police believe the building was rented as a cannabis storage and processing site.[1][2]
A Vietnamese caretaker admitted he and a friend were hired to guard and package the cannabis for 15,000 baht a month.[1] Checks found immigration violations, with some suspects in the country without permission or overstaying and others working against their permits, and the three were handed to Don Mueang police for legal proceedings.[1][2] The building owner and the men’s employer were to be summoned for questioning.[1][2]
