Stickboy Bangkok reports that a late night swoop on
Sukhumvit Soi 4 by police and military personnel from various divisions and
departments seen 80 Africans rounded up and 21 arrests made. Just after 12.30am a team of 100 officers from the Narcotics Suppression
Division, the Patrol and Special Operation Division, Royal Thai Armed Forces
HQ, and Lumpini Police Station descended upon Sukhumvit Soi 4 and began
rounding up dozens of Africans loitering on the street and sub-sois.
Of the 80 detained –
13 men and 67 women – all were asked to provide I.D. and supply a urine sample
for drug testing. 14 had no passports with a further 6 found to have overstayed
their visa. One had a German passport and five Nigerian.
One man from Namibia
tested positive for drugs and was arrested along with the visa violators and
those unable to provide their passports. All were taken to Lumpini police
station for further processing.
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