The drug suspect being questioned at Bor Phut police station. (Photo: Matichon)
A Nigerian drug suspect identified as 45-year-old Chinedu Victor
Okeke did a runner after being tracked down by Samui Police in Thailand
on Sunday, August 5.
According to Thai Residents,
Policemen and Soldiers had to chase down Chinedu, who jumped out of a
window of his rented house, climbed over the fence and dashed into a
temple where he was finally pinned down.
Tourist and Immigration police together with some soldiers had headed
to a rented house in Bophut, after the Koh Samui district chief
suspected the foreign tenant was selling drugs on the tourist island.
Tubes of cocaine police seized from the suspect’s rented house. (Photo: Matichon)
But Chinedu wasn’t going to surrender without a chase. He quickly
climbed out of the window, climbed over the fence it and ran into Wat
Laem Suwannaram temple. But the police and soldiers in hot pursuit
caught him there and brought him back to the house.
A search found that the suspect had hidden 4 bags of powder cocaine,
weighing 2.5 grams, behind an electrical switch. Within a box containing
imported alcohol was hidden 12 bags holding 11.3 grams of cocaine cubes
and 27 tubes of the same drug weighing 271.6 grams.
The suspect confessed that the cocaine was his and that he’d bought
it from a Nigerian friend. He said he sold the drugs to both Thai and
foreign tourists for 1,000-18,000 baht at various entertainment venues
on the island.
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