Two police raids net healthy drug haul

In the first operation, the narcotics suppression police 2 conducted a sting operation to buy 100 kilograms of marijuana at Bt400,000 in Nakhon Phanom from a drug dealer identified as Dey. Police then arrested Dey's accomplice Noi Tocho, 45, who delivered 22 kilograms of the drug and checked the cash while Dey narrowly escaped the arrest. Police's later searched Dey's home and found another 58 kilograms of marijuana.

In the second operation, the narcotics suppression police 3 and provincial police region 9 arrested three Malaysian men between the ages of 19 and 28 and two Thai women in their 30s in Songkhla's Sadao district while allegedly trying to transport 45 kilograms of crystal meth worth Bt145 million to Malaysia. Although the five are claiming innocence, police suspect they got the crystal meth from the North and stored it in Bangkok, before bringing it to Sadao to cross the border.