A woman from Ecuador from Ecuador and a Russian man were arrested following the discovery of 2.35kg of cocaine which was mixed in with jars of skin lotion at Suvanabhumi Airport.
The Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) third division chief said yesterday that following a tip-off, Jenny Carmen del Nozio Acuna Pacheko, 55, had her luggage searched at the airport when she disembarked from a flight from Peru. Seven bottles of lotion laced with cocaine were found.
According to police, she confessed to smuggling the drugs and said she was to deliver them to a man she identified as Michael Shabanov, 31. Police arrested him later at a Bang Na hotel where he was waiting for her.
Mixing cocaine with skin lotion was a new smuggling tactic and the drugs could be extracted later, police added.
The second drug bust occurred on Sunday when four southern residents were arrested for allegedly being in possession of 988,000 yaba pills, a pistol and seven bullets at a house in Phatthalung’s Kong Ra district, police said. Following a tip-off, police found 724,000 pills in a car and 264,000 pills in the house.
The third bust took place last Thursday when a 26 year-old man was arrested having been found with 300,000 Yaba pills at a checkpoint in Chumphon’s Tha Sae district, police said.
(Source: The Nation, Thailand)