Siamese rosewood logs and bicycles seized but smugglers flee after Surin stake-out

[gotlost]

Siamese rosewood logs and bicycles seized but smugglers flee after Surin stake-out

By The Nation







A recent stake-out in an attempt to suppress the smuggling of Siamese rosewood in the northeastern border province of Surin resulted in the interception of 12 logs along with two bicycles, Huay Tab Tan-Huay Sam Rarn Wildlife Sanctuary head Wutthikul Ngampanya said on Tuesday.



However, the smugglers managed to escape capture.



The authorities had received a tip-off about a gang using bicycles to transport rosewood logs across the border for delivery to Cambodian investors via the Chong Kaban Samor area in Tambon Charas, in Surin’s Buachet district.



Sanctuary officials along with police and Army officers subsequently conducted a stake-out during wee hours of Monday morning, Wutthikul said.



They spotted four headlights moving along the path at 3.20am as a group of men pushed two bicycles loaded with the logs, and presented themselves to arrest them.



However, the smugglers fled quickly into the darkness, leaving behind the bicycles and 12 logs, which officials forwarded to Buachet police for further investigation, the sanctuary chief explained.



Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30366997

 

[gotlost]

Cambodian investors via the Chong Kaban Samor area in Tambon Charas, in Surin’s Buachet district.

This area is just to the west of the Sa-Ngam crossing. This area is still loaded with land mines.

 

[mahdam]

Siamese rosewood logs and bicycles seized but smugglers flee after Surin stake-out

By The Nation







A recent stake-out in an attempt to suppress the smuggling of Siamese rosewood in the northeastern border province of Surin resulted in the interception of 12 logs along with two bicycles, Huay Tab Tan-Huay Sam Rarn Wildlife Sanctuary head Wutthikul Ngampanya said on Tuesday.



However, the smugglers managed to escape capture.



The authorities had received a tip-off about a gang using bicycles to transport rosewood logs across the border for delivery to Cambodian investors via the Chong Kaban Samor area in Tambon Charas, in Surin’s Buachet district.



Sanctuary officials along with police and Army officers subsequently conducted a stake-out during wee hours of Monday morning, Wutthikul said.



They spotted four headlights moving along the path at 3.20am as a group of men pushed two bicycles loaded with the logs, and presented themselves to arrest them.



However, the smugglers fled quickly into the darkness, leaving behind the bicycles and 12 logs, which officials forwarded to Buachet police for further investigation, the sanctuary chief explained.



Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30366997

All those logs, on just two bikes?

 

[Yorky]

All those logs, on just two bikes?

Two bikes with four headlights!

 

[gotlost]

All those logs, on just two bikes?

There may have been a cart that's not shown but they are known to transport this way. Btw the photo of this lady is whose photo is being used in the article. She is a full time employee of the Department of Wildlife, trained in par military in Israel and is proficient with all firearms AND is a profession photographer AND is a personal friend of SWMBO and I myself.

 

[FERET]

There may have been a cart that's not shown but they are known to transport this way. Btw the photo of this lady is whose photo is being used in the article. She is a full time employee of the Department of Wildlife, trained in par military in Israel and is proficient with all firearms AND is a profession photographer AND is a personal friend of SWMBO and I myself.

Remind me not to put the hard word on her---Respect.

 

[FERET]

This area is just to the west of the Sa-Ngam crossing. This area is still loaded with land mines.

Jumping jacks, one would hope.

 

[mahdam]

Remind me not to put the hard word on her---Respect.

Wouldn't mind putting some hard wood on her

 

[Merlin]

Two bikes with four headlights!

I wonder if the headlights could be head lamps, worn about the head and not fitted to the bikes? The article doesn't number the gang members. If there were four of them, or more, it would make some sense.

 

[Rice]

Running of into bush full of land mines would of been fun. That's why the rangers did not chase them. They had more sense then that.
The poor Elephants have cleared the walking tracks that is why they are safe.