BANGKOK — Police from Metropolitan Police Division 5 received a tip from an informant that a foreign man was transporting crystal methamphetamine in a large pink rolling suitcase and staying at a hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 11, Sukhumvit Road, Watthana District, while waiting to deliver the drugs to customers on September 30.
The arrest team, working with Lumpini Police Station officers, proceeded to investigate the target location. Hotel staff confirmed that a foreign man matching the informant’s description had indeed checked into the room. Police then reviewed CCTV footage and identified the suspect’s room.
Under the authority of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), police requested to search the foreign man’s hotel room due to reasonable suspicion of drug-related offenses. Hotel staff accompanied officers during the search.
The search uncovered Mr. Wilson, a 23-year-old British national, along with a suitcase on his bed containing 9,152.3 grams of crystal methamphetamine packaged in 10 tea bags. Police seized all evidence.
Wilson admitted he received the crystal meth from a British man named “Snoopy,” whose real surname he did not know. He was paid 20,000 baht ($615) to store the drugs and deliver them to customers.
The arrest team charged him with “distributing Category 1 narcotics (methamphetamine or crystal meth) by possessing them for sale in violation of the law, an act done for commercial purposes that causes distribution among the public.” Lumpini Police Station investigators will proceed with the case.
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