Chiang Rai Police Arrest Myanmar Drug Runners at Resort in Wiang Phang Kham

They smuggled the contraband drug across the border and evaded X-ray detection at the border crossing checkpoint.

 

CHIANG RAI– The Thai police arrested three suspected drug dealers at a resort in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district and seized 8.5 kilogrammes of heroin.

Pol Maj Chamnan Ruadrew, Deputy Commissioner of Provincial Police Bureau Region 5, questioned the three Burmese drug suspects, one woman and two men.

They were arrested in a hotel at an undisclosed resort in Wiang Phang Kham subdistrict.

The smugglers told Chaing Rai police that they were members of a drug trafficking network operated by Myanmar narcotics kingpin Yi Say.

They smuggled the contraband drug across the border and evaded  X-ray detection at the border crossing checkpoint. The drug shipment was intended to be carried to Malaysia where its street value could exceed Bt60 million.