Three caught with yaba in South
Three suspected smugglers were caught with 321,800 yaba pills and Bt7 million cash by police in Narathiwat's Sungai Kolok district yesterday.
The trio was arrested in a pick-up truck at a checkpoint Tambon Pasemas at 5.30am, following a tip-off. Police said the men confessed to transporting the drugs from Nakhon Phanom, where the pills had been smuggled in from Laos. They were delivering them to a Malaysian customer at Sungai Kolok’s Kor Pai Pier. Police estimated the Malaysian street value at Bt144.8 million.
The arrest prompted Thai authorities to ask for Malaysia’s cooperation in sending police to work with the Thai Border Patrol to intercept drug smugglers along the 12-kilometre stretch of the Sungai Kolok River.
Meanwhile in Chiang Mai, Mae Taeng district police arrested two women, ages 22 and 28, and seized 60,000 yaba tablets and Bt3.6 million cash, national police deputy chief Somyos Pumpannoung said. In another case, Fang district police conducting a sting operation at a mall arrested three Myanmar nationals and seized 60,000 yaba tablets.
