06 September 2001 :
Two Chinese Haw tribesmen, Ar-hong sae Soo, 27, and Ar-sing sae Lee, 28, and a Burmese drug dealer, Ar-liang sae Chern, 28, were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court.A Thai woman, Prachak Saengpratheep, who bought some 64,000 speed pills from them, was initially also condemned to death, but her sentence was reduced to a 50-year jail term because her confession led to the arrest of the foreign drug gang.
The three foreigners were charged with possessing 1,730,000 speed pills.
(Sources: Bangkok Post, 07/09/2001)