736,000 pills seized
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A total of 736,000 “yaba” pills and four kilograms of crystal meth or “ice”, were seized in three drug cases, Pol Lt-General Rewat Klinkesorn, chief of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, told a press conference yesterday.
In the main case, suspect Weerapong Tanoo, 27, was nabbed on Saturday with 678,000 pills and two kilos of “ice” at a checkpoint on Asia Highway in Nakhon Sawan. After police found the illicit drugs hidden in a backdoor compartment, Weerapong reportedly confessed to taking packages from an agent in the North to deliver to a customer in Bangkok, believing that police would be more focussed on providing security to holiday makers during the Songkran period.
