Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Nirand Pornsuksomsakul, 33, a resident of Chiang Rai&rsquo;s Mae Chan district, at the Chiang Rai bus terminal in Muang district at 5.30pm.

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Police said Nirand was found sitting on a bus while waiting for it to depart for Bangkok. The drug was found hidden in his travel bag. 
He said a Myanmar man, whom he knew only as &ldquo;Boy&rdquo;, had paid him Bt50,000 to courier the drug from a graveyard in Chiang Rai&rsquo;s Mae Sai district to a recipient in the capital.

Chiang Rai man arrested on bus with 8kg of ‘ice’

A man was arrested while allegedly trying to smuggle 8.59 kilograms of crystal meth or "ice" from Chiang Rai to Bangkok on Monday evening.