Drug den busted at Nana barber shop in Bangkok
published : 17 Oct 2025 at 07:26
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
Bangkok police arrested six foreign men, a Thai woman and a Myanmar woman at a barber shop on Nana Road (Sukhumvit Soi 3) where they said drugs were available.
Police said that while walking on Nana Road at 11pm on Wednesday, plainclothes officers were greeted by two foreign men who offered them drugs.
The foreigners then brought the undercover policemen to a barber shop on the top floor of a five-storey building on Nana Road. They were taken to a secret room where the suspects showed them pills priced at 2,000 baht each.
The suspects included six men aged between 21 and 41: two Pakistanis, and one each from Egypt, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Iraq. The Thai woman was 50 and the other Myanmar woman was 40.
Police found four sachets of methamphetamine weighing 3.3 grammes in total; two sachets of cocaine weighing 1.7g, two speed pills, four ecstasy pills, seven packs of magic mushrooms, 23 hookahs, 55 boxes of snuff, 125 packs of smuggled cigarettes, three bank passbooks and 125,000 baht in cash.
Three suspects were charged with trafficking drugs. The Pakistani was found to be working illegally as a barber. Others were charged with illegal entry, overstaying or having banned products.
Vocabulary
- barbershop (noun): a place were a person who cuts men's hair works - ร้านตัดผม
- magic mushroom: a type of mushroom which contain a drug and may make the person who eats them believe they are seeing things which are not real -
- overstay: stay in a country for longer than you are allowed to stay, not leaving when your visa to stay in the country ends -
- plainclothes (adj): ordinary clothes, esp. of police officers who wear regular clothes instead of police uniforms - นอกเครื่องแบบ
- sachet: a very small plastic bag -
- smuggle: to take things or people to or from a place secretly and often illegally - ลักลอบนำเข้า
- suspect: a person who is thought to have committed a crime - ผู้ต้องสงสัย
- trafficking: dealing in illegal goods, like drugs, weapons or in illegally moving humans or animals from one place to another - การค้าสิ่งที่ผิดกฎหมาย
- undercover: working secretly using a false appearance in order to get information for the police or government - ลึกลับ,ลี้ลับ,ทำอย่างลับ



