Nakhon Ratchasima police chief Maj Gen Watcharin Boonkong told a press conference that Chalerm Phras Kiat officers were setting up a road checkpoint near Nakhon Ratchasima International Airport when they were alerted to a pickup spotted in a nearby plantation.

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The team then cancelled the road checkpoint and investigated the plantation instead. They waited until noon and nobody turned up so they towed the pickup back to the police station.

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The owner of the pickup, which was registered in Nakhon Ratchasima, would be interrogated, Watcharin said.

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559kg of marijuana found in Korat

A total of 559kg of marijuana was found in a pickup truck abandoned in a cassava plantation in Nakhon Ratchasima's Chalerm Phra Kiat district on Wednesday morning.