A female child doll stuffed with 200 methamphetamine pills was found left in the parking of Chiang Mai International Airport on Monday evening.
The child angle found with methamphetamine pills in Chiang Mai airport. (Photo by Cheewin Sattha)
Narcotics suppression police searched the area about 6pm on Monday after a tip-off that a quantity of drugs stuffed in a female child doll would be delivered to a customer there.
Pol Lt Col Kom Chetkhunthod, chief of the Chiang Mai narcotics suppression unit, said a black carrybag containing a doll was found left in a shelter at the airport's parking lot.
A cavity in the doll's chest contained 198 orange and two green methamphetamine pills.
It was the first known case of drugs being delivered in a doll, amid warnings that "Angel Child dolls", or luk thep, a current fad in Thailand, might be used by air passengers to transport drugs.
However, the doll found on Monday looked more like an ordinary doll than an Angel Child.'