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By APD writer Chen Jiabao
BANGKOK, Sept 18 (APD) -- More than 6.5 million pills of drugs worth 1,300 million baht(38 million U.S dollars)were seized, 10 drug dealing suspects were arrested from recent raids, police unveiled on Monday.
Deputy National Police Commissioner Chalermkiat Srivorakan said at a press conference that the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) have seized 6,59200 pills of methamphetamine, 10 kilograms of ice with a street value of 1,342,570 baht from three drug crackdowns.
In the first haul, five suspects were busted with 6,392,200 pills of meth.
“The drug dealers transported the drugs from the northern province Chiang Rai to central Thailand during the typhoon period when no checking points were set, which is a new way of drug delivery." said Chalermkiat, adding that it was the biggest drug haul they ever made.
Chalermakiat said minority groups from the Thai-Myanmar border area helped deliver the drugs. Ten-wheeled trucks were used in the delivery. The drug dealers were arrested when they changed their vehicles in Ayutthaya province.
The second case saw the drugs transported from northern Thailand's Chiang Mai to the south. Four suspects were stopped at a checkpoint in southern Thailand's Chumphon. The dealers, hired for one million baht(29,00 U.S dollars), were transporting 10 kilograms of “ice” and 200,000 speed pills to a customer in Songkhla.
A 34-year-old Nigerian was arrested in the third case. Police had found that he tried to send 120 grams of “ice” to Sydney.
Police said they have cracked down 408 drug dealing cases since last October, with more than 100 million pills of meth seized. 2017 saw the biggest amount of drugs hauled in the past three years.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
