Bangkok police arrested eight suspects including six foreign men, a Thai woman and a Myanmar woman at a barber shop on Nana Road (Sukhumvit Soi 3) where they said narcotics were available.
The Metropolitan Police Bureau said that while strolling on Nana Road at 11pm on Wednesday, plainclothes officers were greeted by two foreign men who offered them ‘a single snort that will bring you to a pyramid peak’.
The foreigners then brought the undercover policemen to a barber shop on the top floor of a five-storey building on Nana Road. They were taken to a secret room where the suspects showed them pills priced at 2,000 baht each.
Bangkok police chief Pol Lt Gen Sayam Boonsom was monitoring the sting operation remotely and ordered their arrest.
The suspects included six men aged between 21 and 41: two Pakistanis, and one each from Egypt, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Iraq. The Thai woman was 50 and the other Myanmar national was 40.
Police found four sachets of methamphetamine weighing 3.3 grammes in total; two sachets of cocaine weighing 1.7g, two speed pills, four ecstasy pills, seven packs of magic mushroom, 23 hookahs, 55 boxes of snuff, 125 packs of smuggled cigarettes, three bank passbooks and 125,000 baht in cash.
Three suspects were charged with trafficking drugs. The Pakistani was found to be working illegally as a barber. Others were charged with illegal entry, overstaying or having banned products.