"meth pills"

Police raided targeted locations in Chiang Mai’s Fang and Mae Ai districts to arrest eight drug suspects and seize 220 assets worth Bt150 million to see if they were sourced illegally.

Some 200,000 methamphetamine pills were seized from the Thai-Lao border in Chiang Rai province on Saturday night following a joint operation by paramilitary rangers from the Pha Muang task force and naval officers patrolling the Mekong River.

A college student received a shock on Wednesday morning when he discovered someone had left a sack containing 58,000 meth-amphetamine pills at a roadside spot in front of his home in Ubon Ratchathani’s Muang district.

Police have arrested a Bangkok woman and seized 2.158 million methamphetamine pills, 83 kilograms of crystal meth or “ice” and 25kg of ketamine.

Two men were caught on Wednesday morning carrying 11,000 methamphetamine pills and 400 grams of crystal meth or “ice” hidden in their canvas sneakers as they tried to walk across the Tachilek-Mae Sai border into Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district.

Three drug suspects have been arrested with a total of 12,277 methamphetamine pills and 1.8kg of crystal methamphetamine (ice) in Thalang.

Six suspected drug couriers believed to be part of the same ring were nabbed in two separate arrests in Kamphaeng Phet on Saturday, during which police seized 3.99 million methamphetamine pills, a deputy national police chief said on Tuesday.

Drug-suppression police arrested three suspects in Songkhla and seized 178,800 methamphetamine pills and 1.09 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from them, a deputy national police chief said on Tuesday.

Police arrested a Laotian man and three Thais on Monday for allegedly smuggling 7,996 methamphetamine pills from Laos to Bueng Kan province.

A drug suspect who purportedly resisted arrest and opened fire at police in Ubon Ratchathani was arrested in Chon Buri on Wednesday morning, police said.

Navy troops seized 200,000 methamphetamine pills smuggled across the Mekong River from Laos to the riverbank in Mukdahan’s Wan Yai district on Monday night.

A joint operation between the Interior Ministry, police and Army has led to the arrest of an alleged courier who has been distributing drugs in several northeastern provinces, officials said on Tuesday.