Thai drug suspect uses sex, beer to escape police

BANGKOK, April 29 (Reuter) A Thai drugs suspect used a combination of sex
and beer to exhaust a police investigator and escape custody while he dozed,
police said on Tuesday.

The woman was arrested on Saturday at Thali district in Loie province
northeast of Bangkok after police found amphetamines hidden in her underwear.

She procured beer for a oneonone, closeddoor session with the young
investigator at the local police station on Saturday night, said a police
officer who was present in the station at the time.

After consuming the better part of 10 beers, the investigator apparently
passed out and the suspect escaped, the officer said.

``It was not only beer that made the investigator exhausted, but they also
had wild sex during the investigation,'' the police officer said.

The maximum penalty for possession of amphetamines, a first degree narcotic,
is the death sentence.

The investigator was transferred to inactive duties.