Police arrest five British nationals at cocaine party

Boonlua Chatree

Five British people were arrested on Christmas Day when they were found in an apartment with a large quantity of drugs, and tests proved they had been using cocaine.

Investigations having revealed that a group of British nationals were holding drug parties in a room on the second floor of Yensabai Mansion, on Soi Yensabai, police obtained a search warrant and raided the premises.

In the apartment they found Mark Freely, 45, Jack Harold Dean, 40, Lee William Spanee, 37, Nicholas Hardy Milburn, 26, and Miss Nichola Allan, 34. All were British passport holders. Also in the room was a Thai youth identified as Summit Saengchuto, age 18.

Searching the premises the officers found five grams of cannabis, four plastic bags of smoked cannabis that contained traces of cocaine, and coffee straws used for sniffing cocaine. The officers also found 50 ecstasy pills and 62 bags of ecstasy powder weighing 278.1 grams with a total value of more than 600,000 baht.

The five foreign nationals and the Thai man were taken for urine tests which all proved positive. Police charged the six with cocaine use, a category 1 drug. The group admitted the charges and told the officers that they bought the cocaine on Walking Street for 3,000 baht per bag. The offices are now following up to arrest the dealer.

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