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Thailand’s Narcotics Suppression Police Seize 10 Million Meth Pills, 4 Kilograms of Heroin

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CHIANG RAI – Narcotics Suppression Police announced at a press briefing that they have recently made seven drug busts that netted 10 suspects that resulted in the confiscation of 10 million methamphetamine pills and nearly four kilograms of heroin.

National police deputy commissioner Pol General Chalermkiat Srivorakan told The Nation on Friday that the NSB also seized other illicit drugs including crystal meth or “ice”, ecstasy pills and cocaine.

Among the seven drug busts, there were three key cases including the arrest of Surachai Bese, 27, on Monday night in Chiang Rai with 4 million methamphetamine pills he is alleged to have smuggled from a border location.

Chalermkiat said the second case saw drug suspect Polawat Lungsikaew, 23, killed in a shootout with Army troops in Chiang Rai while attempting to smuggle 2.8 million methamphetamine pills into Thailand from Myanmar on Sunday night. Police are hunting for Polawat’s accomplice who escaped, he added.

In the third case, a 46-year-old bus driver Prom Rattanakrajang and his elder brother Thanathip, 50, were arrested on January 20 along with 2.82 million methamphetamine pills in Chiang Rai.

Chalermkiat also said that the police drug suppression in the past three months since November 2018-January 2019 had seen 113,000 drug busts which confiscated a total of 248.4 million methamphetamine pills, 4,324 kilograms of “ice”, 442 kilograms of heroine, and 3,454 kilograms of marijuana.

By Supachai Phetchthewee

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