Police in six men in three vehicles transporting 6 million meth pills and 365 kg of crystal meth from Chiang Rai, who almost reached their destination but stopped to eat grilled pork in Pathum Thani, Province.
Pol. Gen. Kittirat Phanphet, Deputy Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police and Director of the Narcotics Suppression Center, and Pol. Lt. Gen. Samran Nuanma, Assistant Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police/Deputy Director of the Narcotics Suppression Center, and relevant agencies work jointly to track down drug dealers with a province-wide task force.
Pol. Gen. Kittirat Phanphet told a press briefing that following a tip-off from an informant that there was a drug gang transporting a large number of drugs from Mae Fah Luang and Mae Chan districts, Chiang Rai Province, they launched a province-wide search.
He said the Royal Thai Police task force tracked down the 3 target vehicles until they found them parked on the side of the Bang Bua Thong-Bang Phun road, Tambon Ban Mai, Amphoe Mueang, Pathum Thani Province, with all the smugglers stopping off to eat grilled pork at a roadside shop.
Pathum Thani Province police inspected the three vehicles that appeared in a convoy. They believed the lead vehicle was used to survey the route, and the follower vehicles were a white Hino truck and two Toyota trucks being used as blockers.
The smugglers used the route from the border area of Chiang Rai, Phayao, Phrae, Uttaradit, and Sukhothai to Pathum Thani Province.
The police searched all 3 vehicles, finding 60 sacks of methamphetamine and crystal meth, totaling 6,000,000 methamphetamine pills and 365 kilograms of crystal meth. They, therefore, pressed charges and detained all 6 people for further interrogation.
From the interrogation, one of the suspects confessed that he arranged to deliver the methamphetamine and crystal meth in the areas of Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani Provinces and was hired for 500,000 baht. He was the driver of the Hino truck and had already received the first lump sum of 100,000 baht.
He said that before reaching their destination, it started raining heavily, so they parked their vehicles to eat at the grilled pork shop and waited for the rain to stop.
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