Each kilogram of heroin is worth about Bt1 million.
“We received a tip-off that heroin would be smuggled into the district. So rangers were patrolling the area when they noticed seven men on five suspicious vehicles,” Col Chalongchai Chaiyakham, acting chief of the Pha Muang force, said yesterday. The heroin was stuffed in fertiliser bags. The illicit drugs might have belonged to Colonel Jalorbo’s drug network, which is based in southern Myanmar, he said.