Major drug hauls in Chiang Rai
Pol General Pongpat Pongcharoen, secretary of the Office of Narcotics Control Board, said yesterday that officials had arrested four drug dealers and seized 888,000 amphetamine tablets and three vehicles being used to deliver drugs to Chiang Rai in four s
Pa Daet district police set up a checkpoint on Mae Loi-Mae Rai Road. Drug dealers saw the checkpoint and fled to Pa Lamo, where they had left a pick-up truck. Police found amphetamine tablets in a bag marked fertiliser in the truck.
Wat Saewang, meanwhile, was arrested with drugs in Pong district of Phayao in a sting operation. Police known smuggling of drugs with a coach bus. They trapped to arrest drug dealer and met Wat. He had a strange box that drugs in a box so they detected him.
In Chiang Rai, police from Transport Station No 2 were inspecting a bus when they noticed Iyares Seeta acting suspiciously. Iyares was found to possess amphetamine tablets and three tickets for other people.
Separately, Chiang Rai police received information that a drug deal was being done at a hotel, with the drugs to be sent to Bangkok.
They found and arrested Aroang Wuyee and Paka Hankam at the hotel in Muang district.
Police seized amphetamine tablets and two pick-ups.
