1.9m ya ba pills, 4kg crystal meth seized near Bangkok

1.9m ya ba pills, 4kg crystal meth seized near Bangkok

Yongyut Srithammupatham, 31, (in yellow) and Noraphat Wongphamit, 30, were brought to a press conference at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau in Bangkok on Monday with 1.85 speed pills allegedly seized from them near Bangkok on Friday. (Photo by Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)
Yongyut Srithammupatham, 31, (in yellow) and Noraphat Wongphamit, 30, were brought to a press conference at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau in Bangkok on Monday with 1.85 speed pills allegedly seized from them near Bangkok on Friday. (Photo by Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)

Police on Monday announced the arrest of two northern men apprehended with about 1.85 million methamphetamine tablets and four kilogrammes of crystal meth near Bangkok.

Pol Lt Gen Rewat Klinkaysorn, commissioner of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, told a press conference at the bureau in Bangkok today that the arrest resulted from a sting operation aimed at luring two suspected drug traffickers into selling 200,000 ya ba tablets for 9 million baht.

Yongyut Srithammupatham, a 31-year-old native of Phichit province, was arrested after allegedly delivering 140,000 pills on Buddha Monthon 5 Road in Samphran district, Nakhon Pathom, on Friday. Later, police found 1.43 million more pills and four kilogrammes of ya ice hidden in his Honda parked in tambon Rai Khing of Samphran.

Another group of plain-clothes police arrested Noraphat Wongphamit, 30 from Lampang province, as he allegedly handed over 60,000 pills in a parking lot next to Mahachai Hospital in Muang Samut Sakhon district, Samut Sakorn, the same day. Police found 222,000 more pills he kept at a house in tambon Thanad of Damnoen Saduak district, Ratchaburi.

Deputy national police chief Pongsapat Pongcharoen said both suspects told police they had acquired the drug from two suppliers in the North.

The suppliers were traffickers who had a plant to manufacture methamphetamines in Myanmar and smuggled them through northern Thailand to sell nationwide. Police already sought warrants for the arrest of the two producers, Pol Gen Pongsapat said.

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