Police officers get death over drugs

Police officers get death over drugs: "Four border patrol policemen were given a death sentence Wednesday for possessing a large number of metamphetamine tablets with the intent to sell. They were arrested in a sting operation three years ago.
The Criminal Court handed down the maximum penalty to the four Chiang Mai-based officers, overruling a legal condition that subjects convicts to a threefold sentence. The convictions over the use and forgery of documents, and the unauthorised possession of firearms were also overruled by the death sentence.
The four convicts are Senior Sgt-Major Phoomiphiphat Thammasuhiran, Senior Sgt-Major Wiroj Moolphrao, Sgt-Major Tawan Kosutho and Sgt-Major Suthas Saipanya. In the sting operation, they sold 150,000 tablets to an undercover agent for Bt11.25 billion.
The court dismissed their claim that they were investigating a drug-related case and that they had been tortured into making a confession."