Bangkok, Feb 29 (IANS) Thai police, accompanied by US drug enforcement officers, Wednesday arrested 12 Africans on charges of drug dealing in Bangkok, a media report said.
Crystal methamphetamine pills and marijuana were also seized from the Africans in the joint operation in Bangkok, Xinhua reported citing Bangkok Post online.
An 80-strong team from the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, the Immigration Police Bureau and the US Drug Enforcement Administration executed 12 search warrants in a raid on a five-storey building in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi district.
Officials found five kg marijuana in a room in the building. A 27-year-old man from Guinea who was in the room attempted to escape by jumping from the balcony. He suffered a broken leg and was taken to hospital.
In another room, police found a 32-year-old Nigerian who threw several crystal methamphetamine pills into the toilet.
The Africans’ visas had expired and some of them do not even have passports, police said.
