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Customs seize 1.3kg of gold hidden in speaker at Suvarnabhumi

October 09, 2026

Thai customs officers detained an Indian passenger at Suvarnabhumi Airport after finding more than 1.3kg of gold worth over 6 million baht hidden inside a speaker.

Truckload of pangolins intercepted in Prachuap

March 03, 2019

Police early Sunday morning seized 76 live pangolins – estimated combined retail value overseas Bt10 million – from a smuggler in Prachuap Khiri Khan.

Jail phone ‘smuggler’ caught

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2018

A 32-year-old ex-convict has been arrested in Phatthalung's Pa Bon district for allegedly selling cellphones to inmates and arranged the delivery during visits by throwing the items over the prison fence, police superintendent Colonel Pattarawit Kitamothaneeyakul of Phatthalung said on Friday.

Indonesia deports French drug smuggler after 18 years

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2018

A Frenchman who served 18 years in custody for smuggling drugs into Bali was deported Saturday in a case that sparked outrage in his native country over Indonesia's tough narcotics laws.

Eight Rohingya abandoned as smuggler panics

FRIDAY, JUNE 08, 2018

A SUSPECTED smuggler has abandoned eight Rohingya he was transporting in a pickup truck after trying to back away from a checkpoint in Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Chian Yai district and crashing into another vehicle yesterday.

Suvarnabhumi officials catch accused iPhone smuggler

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Customs officials at Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Sunday arrested an Australian man who allegedly tried to smuggle 26 iPhone 8 mobiles, worth about Bt1 million, into the country without permission.