Police inspector-general Pol General Suchart Theerasawat and Narcotics Suppression Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Chinnapat Sarasin held a press conference on Tuesday to announce the arrest of the suspect and the drug seizure, and displayed "the evidence".

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“Officials found these drugs hidden in a modified multi-purpose vehicle with heavily tinted windows at a checkpoint in Dan Khun Thot district, Nakhon Ratchasima,” Suchart said. “The arrested suspect confessed that he smuggled the drugs from the Nong Khai-Laos border, and planned to distribute them to a local dealer network.”

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During the press conference, police also announced the seizure of drugs in seven other narcotics cases. The drugs included methamphetamine, cocaine and ecstasy in smaller amounts.

Police make huge drug haul at Nakhon Ratchasima checkpoint

One person was arrested as more than seven million amphetamine pills, 105 kilogrammes of heroin and 300kg of ketamine were seized by police at a checkpoint in Nakhon Ratchasima.