Thanatporn Jekmadan
(left) has been arrested and charged with trafficking marijuana.
Teerarak Suthathiwong
A mid-30s Thai woman carrying a gift box wrapped in floral
wrapping paper didn’t fit the profile of a drug dealer, but inside the
“present” was 2kg of marijuana. The woman was arrested on suspicion of
dealing grass.
An informant offered Pattaya police a tip that a big drug delivery was
going down on Soi Phraphanimit 27. Officers arrived to find Thanatporn
Jekmadan, 37, dropping off the gift-wrapped box at a no-number row
house.
When police opened the 30-by-30cm package they found neatly packaged
marijuana. Officers had Thanatporn take them back to her apartment where
they found another 48kg of grass.
Police said the Nakhon Ratchasima native confessed to buying the
marijuana from a dealer in Laos, using employees to pick up shipments on
the Khong River. Police said she confessed to buying a kilogram of
marijuana for 4,500 baht and reselling it in Pattaya for up to 8,000
baht.
