In an attempt to crackdown on the drug trade, Pha Mueang forces joined with Udon Thani police setting up checkpoints.

Earlier, on 30 July, Pol. Gen. Than Than Pholkosaiwawi, the commander of the Pha Mueang Armed Forces, assigned officers to increase drug enforcement after continuous smuggling occurred along the northern border especially after relief measures for COVID-19 had been lifted.

Cavalry Task Force Unit 4 and Pha Muang Forces, together with the police at Chaiprakarn Police Station, Chiang Mai Police Station No. 334, set up a checkpoint before finding a blue Isuzu D-Max pickup truck, registration number 5297, Bangkok. A Mr. Thotsaporn Sae-llo, 24 years old, was driving when stopped for an inspection.  Officers found about 4 million methamphetamines in a 40-piece backpack and therefore confiscated it as evidence. Mr. Tosaporn was arrested and brought to Chai Prakan Hospital to further investigate the prosecution.

The same day, Mr. Nirat Pongsitthaworn, the governor of Udon Thani, together with the Provincial Police of Udon Thani, announced the arrest of Natthawut Subin, 19 years old and Mr. Patimakorn Mai Kami, 19 years, along with 768,000 amphetamines tablets inside a  Mazda sedan. The two young smugglers were arrested at the roadside in Sung Noen Village, Noen Yang Subdistrict, Kham Muang District, Kalasin Province, in the middle of the night on 29 July. However, both escaped while in custody.

Police from Udon Thani Province notified undercover narcotics agents alerting them about the two smugglers headed into the Kumphawapi district, Udon Thani province. They eventually found the suspects in Kalasin Province. and arrested them and seized the goods which were counted as the largest bust this year.

The amphetamines had an estimated street value of more than 11 million baht. As for the two suspects, they both confessed that they received all the amphetamines from Mr. Joe and were delivering the goods to customers in  Bangkok before going back to the supplier for more.

The two have also confessed to doing the same drug run 9 times, the job pays each of them 30,000 baht every run.

Provincial Police General Udon Thani Province announced that a network of drug dealers have been using Udon Thani province as one of their routes to smuggle methamphetamines Into the inner area and Bangkok.

It was a good day on the drug war for all participants, especially Udon Thani province who arrested 2 smugglers and confiscated more than 768,000 tablets, adding to the already 4 million methamphetamine tablets taken off the streets.

Source: https://www.naewna.com/local/508632

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