泰国逮捕388磅藏在跑步机上的冰毒

Thai anti-narcotics officers have seized 388 pounds of crystal methamphetamine hidden in the metal frames of electric treadmills bound for Japan, police said on Thursday.

泰国警方于本周四称，泰国缉毒人员在准备运往日本的电动踏板金属框架内查获了重388磅的冰毒晶体。

“Last month, the Australian police busted a similar case with the drugs hidden in exercise equipment, which they told us was packaged and exported from Thailand,” Police Major General Yingyot Thepchamnong, head of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau told Reuters. “So, we followed up in the belief there must be other cases.”

“上个月，澳大利亚警方破获了一起类似的案件，他们告诉我们，藏在运动器材里的毒品是包装好的，从泰国出口到澳大利亚的，”缉毒局局长英约特·泰尚农少将告诉路透社。“所以，我们相信肯定还有其他案例。”

He said officers at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport on Tuesday discovered 79 pounds of crystal meth stashed in exercise equipment among air cargo bound for Japan, enabling them to track the shipment back to the warehouse.

他说，周二，曼谷素万那普国际机场(Suvarnabhumi airport)的工作人员在运往日本的航空货物中发现了79磅藏在健身器材里的冰毒，这使他们能够追踪到货物运回仓库。

During the raid on the warehouse, police found a further 308 pounds inside the frames of 10 treadmills.

在对仓库的突袭中，警方在10台跑步机的框架内又发现了308磅。

One person was arrested following the raid, though Yingyot said police believe more suspects were involved.

有一人在突袭后被逮捕，不过英约特表示，警方认为有更多嫌疑人参与。

Thailand is a major trafficking route for crystal meth manufactured in Myanmar’s Shan and Kachin states. The meth market has expanded at an alarming rate as drug seizures have surged more than tenfold over the past two years, official statistics show

泰国是缅甸掸邦和克钦邦制造的冰毒的主要贩运路线。官方统计数据显示，冰毒市场以惊人的速度扩张，毒品查获量在过去两年中激增了十倍以上

The UNODC estimates that the Asia-Pacific methamphetamine trade alone was worth as much as $61.4 billion in 2018, up from an estimated $15 billion just five years earlier.

联合国毒品和犯罪问题办公室(UNODC)估计，2018年，仅亚太地区的冰毒贸易额就高达614亿美元，而五年前，这一数字仅为150亿美元。