An Ubon Ratchathani man was arrested on Tuesday in Chumphon province while allegedly smuggling 45 million baht in methamphetamines to a Malaysian buyer.
Pol Maj Gen Thesa Siriwatho, commissioner of Provincial Police Region 8, and Chumphon governor Somdee Khachayangyuen told a news conference that Rakchart Khanthee, 27 of Nam Yuen district in the northeastern province, was captured at a checkpoint on Phetkasem Highway in Khao Chairat sub-district of Pathiu district at 7.20am after police found narcotics hidden in his white Honda City.
The 486,000 ya ba tablets were hidden in a disguised compartment in the boot of the sedan, along with two kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine.
Mr Rakchart said a Lao woman named Fasai hired him for 1 million baht to deliver the narcotics from the northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom to a Malaysian man in Sungai Kolok district, in the southernmost province of Narathiwat.
He said he had made a successful delivery, his first, last month.