While Nigerians are still morning the four citizens that were killed in Indonesia, a 29-year-old Onyejiekwe Morgan Chinemerem, has
been arrested by the Thailand Metropolitan Police in his rented room in Bangkok
for allegedly masterminding the sale of crystal methamphetamine and cocaine.
He was arrested in a sting operation with 31.47 grams of
crystal methamphetamine or "ice" and 889.63 grams of cocaine as
revealed by
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Police Lt Gen Sriwarah
Rangsitpramkul and Police Colonel Suthep Chanasit, an inspector of the
Metropolitan Police Division 4, in a press conference at 4 pm on Tuesday, 29th
of April.
According to Suthep, the Nigeria man was arrested at the
stairway between the 8th and 9th floors of HR Residence in the Bang Kapi
District while trying to flee.
He said the police got tips that Nigerian men living on the
9th floor of Building 17 of the HR Residence have been involved in the sale of
hard drugs by hiring a Thai man, who was identified only as 'M' as their
courier/delivery boy.
Thus, the police set up a sting operation that involved
police informant getting across to M asking him to purchase the crystal meth
and cocaine from him.
M then told the Nigerian men that a customer would like to
buy 30 grammes of crystal meth and 200 grams of cocaine for 460,000 bahts
(about $14,000 or almost N3 million) said Suthep.
M led the detectives to the room of the Nigerian men to buy
the drugs and it was there the police found two Nigerians in the room.
Once the police identified them, two Nigerians ran out of
the room, one fled the scene and Chinemerem was arrested at the stairway and he
later confessed that he and his friend were responsible for smuggling the drugs
to sell mainly using post parcels.
The charges levelled against him include the possession of
crystal methamphetamine and cocaine with the intention to sell
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