Drugs seized in Nong Khai, Phuket, Nakhon Si Thammarat

Drugs seized in Nong Khai, Phuket, Nakhon Si Thammarat

In three separate actions on Tuesday, police seized a total of 298 kilogrammes of dried marijuana in Nong Khai and Phuket provinces, and 140,000 methamphetamine pills and 1kg of crystal methamphetamine, or ice, in Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Three suspects were arrested.

In Nong Khai, border patrol police seized 200kg of dried marijuana found on the bank of the Mekong River on Tuesday night.

Pol Lt Col Boonlert Wisetchart, commander of 245th BPP Company, said at a press conference that a BPP unit on patrol between Ban Mai and Ban Nong Kung villages in tambon Kut Bong of Phon Phisai district about 9pm saw a long-tailed boat crossing the river from Laos. It stopped on the Thai side, unloaded five sacks onto the river bank and then left.

The patrol waited until 9.30pm. When no one showed up to collect the bags they went down the bank and opened the sacks, which were stuffed with 200 compressed blocks of dried marijuana.

Nobody was arrested.

In Phuket, police at Tha Chatchai checkpoint stopped a car for a search and found three sacks -- two with  60 bricks of marijuana and the other with 38, weighing altogether 98kg -- on the back seat and in the boot.

Annop Dueramae, 37, of Trang province, was arrested.  He allegedly said he collected the marijuana at a train station in Surat Thani from a woman called Kung. He was delivering it to a point in Phuket where a customer was supposed to  show up and collect it.

Annop Dueramae, 37, is arrested with marijuana weighing 98kg in Phuket on Wednesday. (Photo by Achataya Chuenniran)

In Nakhon Si Thammarat, acting on a tip-off, soldiers from the 41st Military Circle and police searched an airconditioned tour bus at a checkpoint at Moo 9 village in tambon Ko Khan of Cha-uat district.  The bus was from Bangkok and destined for Songkhla's Hat Yai.

Two suspects were arrested with 140,000 methamphetamine pills and 1kg of ice in their possession.

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