Suspects flee into forest, leave behind 10kg of heroin
Officials yesterday announced the seizure of 10 kilograms of heroin and five motorcycles belonging to drug suspects. The items were confiscated from suspects who fled into forest in Chiang Rai's Mae Fah Luang district on Friday night.
Each kilogram of heroin is worth about Bt1 million.
“We received a tip-off that heroin would be smuggled into the district. So rangers were patrolling the area when they noticed seven men on five suspicious vehicles,” Col Chalongchai Chaiyakham, acting chief of the Pha Muang force, said yesterday. The heroin was stuffed in fertiliser bags. The illicit drugs might have belonged to Colonel Jalorbo’s drug network, which is based in southern Myanmar, he said.
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