Thai authorities made a surprising discovery when they destroyed a life-sized Transformers robot statue and recovered more than 700 pounds of ketamine.
“Currently, we are facing a drug trafficking problem with transnational criminal networks lurking in all regions, using Thailand as a base to continually smuggle drugs to third countries through international transport by air and sea.” Police Lieutenant General Panurat Rakubun told reporters. The bust occurred on April 25th.
Australian authorities discovered about 220 pounds of methamphetamine that an unidentified woman had tried to smuggle into a food processing machine on March 12, and had been monitoring her movements for several weeks, Viral Press reported.
She allegedly tried to smuggle even more drugs inside the pedestals of life-size statues of Transformers characters Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Greenlight. The statue was ostensibly to be exhibited at a film exhibition in Taiwan. Channel News Asia reported.
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Police have seized hundreds of pounds of ketamine hidden inside a life-sized Transformers robot in Thailand. (viral press)
The woman is said to have paid a shipping company approximately $4,800 to help transport the statue. Authorities said she received instructions to receive drugs from another unidentified woman in Laos. The Drug Enforcement Administration said the drugs originated in Cambodia and that it had agents tracking the accomplices in Taiwan.
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The Thai Drug Enforcement Agency handed over the seized drugs, totaling about 700 pounds of ketamine. (viral press)
“ONCB has a cooperation project with the Airport Interdiction Task Force, which aims to suppress and interdict drugs at airports, and the Seaport Interdiction Task Force, which aims to prevent drug import into the country and export to third countries. ” Fanurat said.
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A Thai SWAT team, working with the Thai Drug Enforcement Agency, seized a gun at a facility in Bangkok’s Chinatown district on January 17, 2018. (Robert Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
Thai authorities seized more than four tons of meth, more than two tons of ketamine, and more than 580 pounds of heroin busts.
The Drug Enforcement Agency argued that otherwise these drugs would find their way into lucrative markets in neighboring regions of Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Newsflare reported.
