CHIANG RAI- A 41-year-old man has been arrested while trying to smuggle over one million methamphetamine pills into the country via Mae Chan district of this northern border province.
Local police and border patrol officers stopped a grey Isuzu pickup truck with a Chiang Rai licence plate for a search late Wednesday night, acting on information smugglers would move drugs into Thailand from the Thai-Myanmar border in Mae Sai district via Mae Chan district.
The search found five fertiliser sacks inside the pickup. The sacks contained 1,128,000 speed pills wrapped in black plastic, Pol Col Thatthanasorn Chutharat, chief of Mae Chan police, said at a media briefing on Thursday.
The driver, Charoen Chumchan, 41, of Chiang Mai, was arrested and charged with having illicit drugs in his possession with intent to sell.
Police were extending the investigation to find more people involved.
Packs of methamphetamine pills found inside a black plastic bag hidden in one of the five fertiliser sacks containing over one million speed pills during a police search of a pickup truck in Chiang Rai's Mae Chan district late Wednesday night. (Photo by Chinpat Chaimon)
