A monk was arrested on Sunday night with 120,000 methemphetamine pills in his possession while travelling on a tour bus heading for Bangkok from Chiang Mai's Chom Thong district, police said.
Police and soldiers making a routine search of the Transport Company tour bus at a checkpoint at Ban Wang Din in Lamphun's Li district about 9.45pm spotted a monk acting suspiciously.
In a search of the monk's two cloth bags they found 60 packs containing 120,000 methemphetamine pills, a mobile phone and 2,200 baht cash.
The monk, identified as Phra Thanayuth Polsen, 47, of Wat Phromburi in Sing Buri province, allegedly confessed to having been hired by another monk, named Daeng, for 50,000 baht to deliver the drugs from Chom Thong district in Chiang Mai to a recipient at Wat Phromburi. He had been paid 10,000 baht in advance and would get the rest on completing the delivery.