3 caught trying to retrieve drugs
Police arrested three suspected drug dealers yesterday after they tried to retrieve crystal methamphetamine worth Bt180 million from their pick-up truck, which was impounded in Pathum Thani's Khlong Luang district after an accident.
At 4.30am, Pratunam Chulalongkorn police station officers apprehended three Chiang Rai men aged 25-39 along with 62kg of crystal meth. One of the suspects reportedly confessed that they were hired for Bt300,000 to deliver the drugs in the Khlong Luang area on October 5, but abandoned the pick-up truck after hitting a motorcycle. The person who hired them then told them to retrieve the drugs or they would be killed. They had broken into the storage facility on Tuesday and were searching the truck when dogs detected them, prompting them to flee emptyhanded. Police later discovered their attempt to retrieve the drugs and apprehended them in a stakeout.
In Khon Kaen’s Mancha Khiri district, meanwhile, police yesterday seized 2,500 kilograms of marijuana at an abandoned warehouse. The drugs were reportedly procured from Laos by a Sakhon Nakhon-based drug gang and were being stored ahead of distribution in Bangkok and nearby provinces as well as Europe. Police arrested one man and are expected to issue arrest warrants for three more suspects soon.
