while packing pills for Halloween party
source: dailymail.co.uk
A Briton who ran a world-wide drugs syndicate from his mansion home in Thailand was arrested last night as he was packing drugs for a 'high society' Halloween party.
Marcus James, 48, from Lewisham, South London, was seized along with his common-law Thai wife Linrat Chalwatworachot, 36, at his £1 million mansion in the resort of Pattaya, 100 miles east of Bangkok.
Police seized drugs, drug making equipment, and all his assets worth in excess of £10 million.
Using sniffer dogs Thai police found Ecstasy and met-amphetamines hidden in upstairs and downstairs toilets, in an office desk and a safe. They also found the materials for making 'Ice'.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Adisorn Nongsee said James admitted all as he had been caught red handed.
"He was packing drugs for a Halloween party.
"His cover was that he was running a travel company, but his real business was drugs.
"He admitted to our investigators that he was making the drugs and sending them to England and Europe where they were used at 'high society' parties. He was also supplying high society parties in Bangkok and Pattaya.
"He had become rich from his business and been able to buy several cars and a 1903 Harley Davison motorcycle."
Police said that although his house in Jomtien Palace Village contained most of the equipment for making drugs they believed the actually factory was elsewhere and they were still looking for it and other members of the gang.
They have yet to weight all the drugs and formal charges will be made later, but they so far had counted over 6000 Ecstasy and met-amphetamine tablets.
Marcus James faces the death sentence in Thailand, but all death sentences given to westerners have been reduced to life imprisonment.
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