Immigration police raided a warehouse used to grow cannabis in Bang Len district, Nakhon Pathom, and arrested 16 Vietnamese nationals. Six were charged with overstaying for up to 1,460 days and ten with working outside the jobs their permits allowed; all were handed to Bang Len police.
🇹🇭 191/1-2 Naraphirom, Bang Len, Nakhon Pathom · Thailand
Immigration police raided the warehouse on 12 November 2026.[1]The warehouse
is at 191/1-2 in Naraphirom subdistrict, Bang Len district, Nakhon Pathom.[2]Officers found 16 Vietnamese nationals working inside.[3]Six had stayed 1,460
days beyond their permits, about four years, and were charged with overstaying.[3]The other 10 were charged with working outside the jobs their permits
allowed.[4]
Police charged all 16 and sent them to investigators at Bang Len police station.[3]The raid followed information that the building was used for illegal
cannabis cultivation and to employ foreign workers without papers.[3]The site
was described as a factory used to grow cannabis.[1]
The operation was ordered by Immigration Division 3 commander Pol. Maj. Gen.
Songprod Sirisukha.[5]He said immigration units would tighten checks on
businesses that employ foreign workers and on premises used for other offences.[5]Police described the raid as part of a wider crackdown on businesses
suspected of using undocumented foreign workers or other illegal activity.[6]
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