5 Lisu tribesmen, 1 Nepalese caught with big heroin haul
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Five members of the Lisu tribe were arrested yesterday along with a 22-year-old Nepalese man for trying to smuggle 34 kilograms of heroin into Malaysia, Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) secretary-general Pongsapat Pongcharoen said yesterday.
The drugs were allegedly destined for sale in Taiwan, Australia and Europe.
Police arrested the Nepalese man last Thursday and seized drugs in his possession at Chiang Mai airport. Later, police extended the hunt and arrested the Lisu tribe members at a hotel in Chiang Mai’s Muang district. They also raided a house in the Mae Taeng district where they found another 28kg of heroin, he said.
Separately, the Mekong River naval patrol unit nabbed a 39-year-old Laotian woman along with 18,000 yaba tablets at the Ban Na Waeng Pier in Ubon Ratchathani’s Khemmarat district yesterday. She was reportedly on her way to deliver the drugs to customers in the Central region.
