Huge drugs consignment seized in flood-hit South
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Police seized 298,000 “yaba” pills with a street value of Bt60 million in Surat Thani’s Phuphin district from a gang that took advantage of the recent flood chaos in the South to smuggle illicit drugs.
The pills – a combination of methamphetamine and caffeine – were seized at a roadside checkpoint at 2.30am on Thursday. The driver of a pickup truck, Wiwatchai Chanchoom, was also arrested.
Wiwatchai, 40, allegedly confessed that he was paid Bt50,000 by a woman from northern Thailand to transport the drugs from a spot on the Asia Highway in Phuphin to Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Noppitham district.
