The 28-year-old identified only as U was arrested at a temporary checkpoint in the village of Ban Huayphueng in Tambon Huaypha, arriving on foot and carrying a backpack. 
Officials believed he was behaving suspiciously and searched his bag, which allegedly contained the drugs. 
U purportedly confessed to carrying the drugs from Panglong in Shan state to sell to a Thai man in Chiang Mai he knew only as Ead.

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