A South African woman has been arrested at Bangkok airport attempting to smuggle two kilogrammes (4.4 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine, Thai police say.

Narcotics police acting on a tip-off stopped Adelina Ntshebleng Lephutha Ononiwu, 31, at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Monday after she arrived from the Kenyan capital and was waiting for an onward flight to Cambodia.

Police found the drugs — also known as “ice” — in three bags hidden in a secret compartment in her luggage, they said. The haul has a street value of $80,000 in Thailand.

“She said she was hired by a Nigerian man to deliver the luggage to Phnom Penh,” Colonel Pornchai Charoenwong of the Narcotic Suppression Bureau said.

“He paid her 24,000 baht ($760) and said she will get a further 200,000 baht when the job was completed,” he said, adding she started her journey in Benin, West Africa.

Ononiwu was charged with drug trafficking, which carries a death sentence in Thailand, although executions are rarely sanctioned.

Thailand, along with other countries in the region, has seen a marked increase in seizures of methamphetamine as the world opiate trade declines.

A Malaysian woman was arrested on June 6 at the airport with 4.8 kilos of crystal methamphetamine after she arrived from Benin, one of the largest seizures of the drug from an individual smuggler.

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Jun 21, 2012

2nevvy4u

oh nkosi yam yini nga la bantwana na maNigeria kodwa,may her puunani rest in peace.
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Jun 21, 2012

Mnyakazo258

Atleast Babsie will not be alone in Bangkok......Thanks sster for joining babsie .
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Jun 21, 2012

piet

dog will always be dog

not say they dont know the rules,love of money on S.A ladies

ASIA cut their heads off,they dont listen

i dont feel anything for a stupid person,nxa
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Jun 21, 2012

1andonlybucs

this has went on too far.. DEATH PENALTY. this sisters are embarrassing us as a nation!!!
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Jun 21, 2012

Msiphos00

A South African woman has been arrested at Bangkok
Adelina Ntshebleng Lephutha Ononiwu, 31
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No ways Ononiwu SA that can't be hayi kona these Nigerians bazosiqeda
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Jun 21, 2012

Phunyukabemphethe

Give up!!!
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Jun 21, 2012

Phunyukabemphethe

Msiphos00
A South African woman has been arrested at Bangkok
Adelina Ntshebleng Lephutha Ononiwu, 31
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No ways Ononiwu SA that can't be hayi kona these Nigerians bazosiqeda .
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Married to Nigerian and used as tool
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Jun 21, 2012

LLCool

@Msimphos00:

come-on, she is a south african married to a Nigerian.
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Jun 21, 2012

sabza007

These women never learn !!!! Are they after Nigerian's D****s ? With the names like that , she is definitely not a South African. Thats a fake ID or passport!!! She must be castrated ! She is a fraudster.
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Jun 21, 2012

guiliano

Another drug mule, so life goes on.
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