Six nabbed in drug haul
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Police yesterday arrested five hilltribe men and a Thai woman and confiscated 690,000 yaba tablets, worth Bt200 million, in Samut Prakan’s Muang district, national police chief General Priewpan Damapong said.
The suspects were transporting the drugs from the North, he said.
One of the suspects, Somchai Laoyipa, told police he had transported drugs twice before, each time for Bt15,000.
Chumphon police manning a checkpoint in Tha Sae district yesterday also apprehended a Thai man, Sakchai Srisuk, 40, and his Lao wife, who were travelling in a pickup with their nine-month-old child.
They were in possession of 354,000 yaba tablets.
Sakchai told police he had been hired by another man to transport the drugs from Bangkok to Trang in exchange for Bt100,000.
