Police Bust Cocaine Ring Hiding Drugs in Rotten Bread
Bangkok police dismantled a cocaine distribution ring that hid drugs inside rotten bread loaves and used food delivery riders to move up to 20 packages a day. The raid on a condominium in Suan Luang netted 650 grams of cocaine, packaging equipment, and three suspects linked to a Nigerian-led network. The suspects have confessed to operating the scheme for two years.
Acting on a tip-off about suspicious activity at a well-known condominium in the On Nut area of Bangkok's Suan Luang district, Metropolitan Police Bureau narcotics suppression officers raided a unit on November 9, 2026. They arrested 29-year-old Chanyanuch (surname withheld), who had been living there for two years while packing cocaine into bread loaves and dispatching them via delivery riders — averaging 20 runs per day. Inside the room police seized 400 packets of cocaine weighing about 650 grams (street value roughly 2 million baht), large quantities of assorted bread, packaging materials, digital scales, a drug grinder, white chalk sticks used to cut the cocaine, four mobile phones containing daily transaction records, and about 100,000 baht in cash.
The suspect confessed she had been part of an organised gang run by a Nigerian national based overseas. Her role was to receive the drugs, mix lower-grade batches with chalk (15% chalk to create an "85%" grade), repackage them inside bread, and hand them off to riders on a rotating 15-day shift for 30,000 baht per shift. The operation also yielded two more arrests: 25-year-old Jariyawadee at a Ramkhamhaeng condominium and 43-year-old Narisara in a Sukhumvit soi. All three face charges of Category 2 narcotics possession with intent to sell and participation in a transnational drug network.
