Half-a-tonne of ganja found in parked car

Half-a-tonne of ganja found in parked car

The 499 kilogrammes of seized cannabis, and the car, shown at the Nakhon Phanom provincial police headquarters on Friday. (Photo by Pattanapong Seepiachai)
The 499 kilogrammes of seized cannabis, and the car, shown at the Nakhon Phanom provincial police headquarters on Friday. (Photo by Pattanapong Seepiachai)

NAKHON PHANOM -- Police found 499 kilogrammes of cannabis in a car at a rubber plantation in Nakhon Phanom province and believe it was smuggled from Laos.

Nakhon Phanom police said local residents informed them of a white Toyota Corona seen parked in a plantation owned by Wanjai Noinamkham in Ban Kham Sa-ard village of tambon Na Kham in Si Songkhram district. Ms Wanjai insisted she had nothing to do with the vehicle.

Inside the car police found 13 sacks containing 499 compressed slabs of cannabis, each weighing one kilogramme. Police had yet to identify the owner of the car.

Police believed the cannabis was smuggled from Laos, which is directly across the Mekong River from Nakhon Phanom. The local price for ganja is 5,000 baht per kilogramme, police said.

If taken to southern Thailand the price would soar to 20,000 baht per kilogramme and the seized drugs would be worth about 10 million baht, police said.

Early this month police in Nakhon Phanom had seized about two tonnes of cannabis.

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