Man arrested with 3,000 meth pills
Police and administrative officials early on Sunday arrested a 39-year-old man and allegedly seized from him nearly 3,000 methamphetamine pills that police said he tried to bury in Bung Kan province.
At 4.30am, Bung Khong Long deputy district chief Worasit Sangkhapan led defence volunteers in a joint search with police to arrest a drug suspect following a tip-off about drug delivery in Ban Foy Lom (Moo 7) in Tambon Tha Dok Kham. They spotted the local man Anant Onsida as he was walking up a staircase of the Mekong flood barrier and sought to search him.
Police said the man ran back and was later spotted digging up the soil and trying to bury something, which turned out to be two duct tape-wrapped packages containing 2,959 methamphetamine pills.
Anant, who also tested positive for substance abuse, reportedly told police that a Lao man had hired him for 50 meth pills to place the drugs in the area for another person to pick up later.
Earlier on Saturday night, police had seized 4,238 meth pills at a bridge on Na Sai-Na Singha Road in Tambon Sri Wilai, Sri Wilai district, left behind by two youngsters on a motorcycle, who were suspiciously circling the bridge to deliver the drugs but sped away when police approached to search them.
