Nigerian arrested in Thailand for selling cocaine
By Kusoro Jeremiah
Ibenuba Henry Onyinyechukwu, a Nigerian living in Thailand has been arrested by Thailand police for possession and dealing in illegal drugs.
Ibenuba, alleged to have been dealing in hard drugs in Thailand for a while, was arrested following a well planned move by the police.
A Thai lady named Somkid Kwanngern according to information was first
arrested with 1.2g of cocaine and upon questioning revealed to the police it was her Briton friend, Curtis Martin Taylor, who gave them to her and subsequently took the police to Taylor who confessed to buying the drugs from Ibenuba.
Thai police, report said, hatched a secret investigation on Ibenuba using the Thai lady who pretended to be a buyer through a call to Ibenuba asking to buy 5.45g of cocaine from him.
The Nigerian unknowingly asked the lady to come to his house at KK apartment to receive it.
Police gave the lady fake money for the transaction. After the deal was concluded, the lady informed the trailing police who swooped on Ibenuba and arrested him with the fake money and the the drug.
The police thereafter charged him with possession of category 2 drug while the Thai lady and the Briton were charged with possession of category 2 & 5 drugs.