BANGKOK – The employees of a parcel delivery service were screening parcels before dispatch at the Rama 9 service center when they discovered a suspicious parcel addressed to Jerome in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Suspecting that the package contained illegal items, they alerted the police for further inspection. During the check, narcotics were discovered.
Pol. Maj. Gen. Panthana Nuchanart, deputy director of the Immigration Department, announced the results of the investigation on May 29.
The suspicious package contained a red remote-controlled car, a remote control and a charging box without a charger. Instead, it contained a plastic-wrapped packet of white powder weighing about 10 grams.
Preliminary tests of the white powder confirmed that it was a type 2 narcotic (cocaine). The evidence was confiscated and forwarded to the investigators. The sender, who used the name Gregore, was tracked down and arrested in a housing estate in the Phatthanakan area, Suan Luang district, Bangkok.
The suspect, identified as 39-year-old French national Macon, lived with a Thai woman in the housing estate. The court issued an arrest warrant dated April 23, 2024, charging him with attempting to illicitly export type 2 narcotics (cocaine) for commercial purposes and distributing narcotics to the public.
Macon admitted that the packet and the cocaine belonged to him. He had bought the cocaine from an unidentified black man in a Bangkok nightclub. The package was intended as a test shipment to a friend in Cambodia, which was his first attempt. When the friend did not receive the package, he realized that the Thai police must have found the cocaine in the package, but he did not expect the authorities to trace it back to him as he had used an alias, Gregore.
The Frenchman also admitted that he would have continued to send cocaine to his friend in Cambodia if this shipment had reached its destination.
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