Police in Chiang Rai have detained thee men and seized 600,000 of methamphetamine tablets at a roadside checkpoint in Mae Chan District. Soldiers and police manning the Kew Thap Yang checkpoint signalled 2 pickup trucks driving together down from the mountains to stop for an inspection as they were acting suspicous.
The Border Patrol Police did a visal search of the two pickup trucks and found no evidence of drugs. They then employed a sniffer dog that discovered drugs hidden in the door panels, back seat cover and in the spare tire.
Three hundred bundles of methamphetamine containing 2,000 tablets each, totaling 600,000 methamphetamine tablets were found.
Police immediately arrested the three suspects who were residents of Thoet Thai Subdistrict, Mae Fah Luang District, Chiang Rai Province. They were taken to Mae Chan Police Station for further legal action and questioning.
Currently, efforts are being made in northern Thailand, particularly in Chiang Rai, to halt the flow of drugs from the Golden Triangle region.
In this low-intensity war against increasingly skilled drug makers and traffickers, the amount of drug shipments is astounding, and the number of dead keeps climbing.
The Golden Triangle, which is where the forest borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar converge, is home to a highly militarised and mostly lawless region from where producers and traffickers operate, making the situation even more severe.
Nowadays, seizures of methamphetamine pills from the Golden Triangle are routinely reported in the millions, while shipments of crystal methamphetamine, heroin, and ketamine are estimated in the hundreds of kilogrammes.
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