Thursday, May 21, 2026 - Police have arrested a Nigerian man and two Thai women with 65.5 kilogrammes of heroin in Bangkok, Thailand.
Pol Col Jetnipat Siriwat, a superintendent with the Crime
Suppression Division, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, May 20,
2026 said the suspects were linked to a Nigerian romance scam network that
lured Thai women to distribute drugs in Thailand.
The Nigerian suspect, identified only as Obi, was arrested
on Monday, May 18 at a hotel on Phatthanakan Road in Suan Luang district of
Bangkok, Siriwat said.
Officers also arrested a woman identified as Kanyarat at an
apartment on Navamin Soi 42 in Bung Kum district.
Another woman identified as Somporn, was arrested at the
southern bus terminal in Bangkok.
According to Pol Col Jetnipat, the 65.5kg of heroin worth
about 200 million baht was smuggled from Laos into Nong Khai province in
northeastern Thailand.
Mr Obi reportedly stored the heroin at the hotel before
packaging it for distribution to dealers who would sell it at tourist
destinations in Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket.
Ms Somporn said she was just about to board a bus to Phuket
to deliver the heroin to dealers in the southern province when police found
her.
Both Mr Obi and Ms Somporn said they received the heroin
from Ms Kanyarat.
The drugs were packed in snack and pet feed packages.
Police found 49.5kg of heroin with Mr Obi and 16kg with Ms
Somporn.
Pol Col Jetnipat said a Nigerian gang lured Thai women
through romance scams and later hired the women to distribute drugs for 30,000
baht per deliver.
“The Nigerian scammers were not in Thailand and the three
arrested suspects did not know one another,” he said.
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