Thai police arrest Singaporean fugitive accused of ordering poison
Bangkok police arrested a 40-year-old Singaporean known as Joel on September 3 after a more than three-month probe by Thai narcotics officers following information from Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau. Officers who tracked the man after reports he posed as a student searched his condominium and seized three grammes of crystal meth, drug paraphernalia, explosive precursor chemicals and other hazardous substances. A party entertainer told police he ordered poison via the dark web and threatened violence; phone evidence supports the order claims. Joel denied plotting a mass killing and said he bought the substances to commit suicide.
Police seized potent poison, explosive chemicals and meth from a fugitive
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Singapore authorities alerted Thai narcotics officials in late January about a wanted man. Thai officers tracked him for over three months and questioned women who met him. Forensic testing and formal charges could follow from the seized…
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