Lao woman, 21, arrested in Maha Sarakham with 19,600 meth pills
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Maha Sarakham police arrested a Laotian woman who was allegedly attempting to deliver 19,600 methamphetamine pills to an unnamed recipient.
Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Souksamoan, 21, from the Lao province of Savannakhet, as she arrived at the Maha Sarakham bus terminal from Nakhon Phanom. The woman was identified by only one name.
Police found the drugs hidden in her clothes inside a plastic bag.
She reportedly admitted that she had been promised Bt60,000 to take the drug from the border at Nakhon Phanom to a recipient in Maha Sarakham’s Kantharawichai district.
She said she had previously delivered drugs to a recipient in Khon Kaen and was paid Bt42,000, police said.
