A Thai boat captain has tested positive for methamphetamine at a pier in Phuket.

The Thai Marine Police told the Phuket Express that earlier this week they randomly inspected a pier in Koh Kaew, Phuket City. The suspect, identified only as Mr. Nikorn, 42, a speed boat captain at a pier in Koh Kaew, tested positive for the use of methamphetamine, an illegal class one narcotic drug.

Additionally, seized from him was one methamphetamine pill. He was taken to the Phuket City Police station to face charges of illegal possession of category 1 drugs and using illegal drugs.


Thai speedboat drivers serving tourists using illegal drugs has been a major focus of the Thai Marine Police in recent times have several major incidents.

Thai Boat Captain Tests Positive for Methamphetamine in Phuket - The Phuket Express

And in a flash, Thailand's meth epidemic is solved.

Wasn't there a similar story about 6-9 months ago?

Yep there was.

5 boat drivers in Phuket test positive for methamphetamine

Always amusing the way these buffoons aggrandise their people with a status bestowed by some imagined rank.

The boat ‘captain’………..

A stumpy bandylegged illiterate gouging stupid tourists out of their cash for a piddling trip that occasionally, but not unexpectedly, results in disaster whether through a collision with some island or other, spontaneous combustion or holed by another passing ‘captain’.