PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN -- A man and his wife were arrested after 110,000 methaphetamine pills were found in their pick-up truck - loaded with sacks of animal feed as cover - at a checkpoint in Sam Roy Yot distict on Saturday night, police said.
Acting on information from informants, at about 8.30pm police manning the Sam Roy Yot security checkpoint on Phahon Yothin highway stopped a white Chevrolet pick-up truck for a search. The truck was loaded with 60 sacks of animal feed.
In the search, the police found 55 bundles of 110,000 methamphetamine pills stuffed inside three of the sacks.
The truck driver, Decha Klinprathum, 38, and his wife Lalita Thuanmuang, 29, both of Sing Buri province, were arrested and charged with possession of illicit drugs with intent to sell.
The two said they had no idea there were drugs hidden in the cargo. They were hired for 12,500 baht by a man called Noe, who operated more than 40 cargo trucks, to drive the Chevrolet truck loaded with animal feed from Fang district of Chiang Mai to a client in Nakhon Si Thammarat, they said - adding that they had previously been hired by Mr Noe to deliver mangoes and pumpkins to Surat Thani and Satun.
Police were investigating. They believed the two had been working for a drug network.