CHIANG RAI – Police and border secuity soldiers intercepted a major drug shipment on Monday night after a high-speed vehicle tracking operation in rural Chiang Rai province. Officers seized five million methamphetamine pills from an abandoned sedan following an intense pursuit along a dark provincial highway.
Police Major Songphon Awpithak led operational teams from the Narcotics Suppression Bureau as they shadowed the suspicious vehicle across rural backroads. The driver abruptly abandoned the car near roadside brush along the Den Ha–Dong Mada road and vanished into pitch darkness before officers could surround him.
Key Takeaways
- Officers confiscated five million illicit pills packed tightly across 22 heavy sacks in Chiang Rai’s Mae Lao district.
- The suspect abandoned the loaded transport sedan on the roadside and escaped capture under the cover of night.
- Investigators from the Narcotics Suppression Bureau are tracing transport networks to identify the smuggling syndicate coordinators.
Special investigation squads had tracked regional trafficking networks moving northern contraband toward central Thailand over several days. Officers spotted the target sedan moving suspiciously through Mae Lao district and initiated tactical tracking to prevent cargo distribution across regional provinces.
When marked patrol units moved in to halt the vehicle, the suspect accelerated abruptly before veering sharply onto the roadside shoulder. The smuggler leaped out into dense roadside thickets, exploiting poor visibility along unlit rural roads to evade immediate police containment.
A systematic search of the abandoned car revealed ten fertilizer sacks stuffed into the rear cabin and passenger trunk spaces. Operating teams then swept adjacent fields and discovered twelve additional sacks concealed beneath dense vegetation only yards away from the vehicle.
Forensic teams counted roughly five million pills across all twenty-two sacks and impounded the suspect sedan as vital criminal evidence. Narcotics officers are running forensic tests on interior fingerprints and expanding investigative tracking to dismantle the broader trafficking syndicate behind this operation.
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