Drug suspects arrested downtown with 4m 'yaba' pills

Drug suspects arrested downtown with 4m 'yaba' pills

Anti-narcotics authorities arrest drug suspect Sathaporn Thopbandit in downtown Chiang Yuen district in Maha Sarakham on Monday. (Narcotics Suppression Bureau photo)
Anti-narcotics authorities arrest drug suspect Sathaporn Thopbandit in downtown Chiang Yuen district in Maha Sarakham on Monday. (Narcotics Suppression Bureau photo)

Anti-narcotics authorities arrested a suspect at the town centre in Chiang Yuen district, Maha Sarakham province, on Monday in a movie-like operation.

Three other men were also captured in another location in the district, with 4 million pills of methamphetamine or yaba. Another two were arrested in Wichian Buri district in Phetchabun.

Sathaporn Thopbandit comes out of the car after the arrest in Chiang Yuen district in Khon Kaen on Monday. (Narcotics Suppression Bureau photo)

Narcotics suppression police in Udon Thani and Narcotics Control Board officials, all in plainclothes, used two pickup trucks and a car to follow a black Toyota Wish multipurpose vehicle driven by Sathaporn Thopbandit from Sangkhom district in Nong Khai, where the drugs were delivered. They decided to take action when the man arrived at the Chiang Yuen municipality in Maha Sarakham.

Authorities used their vehicles to block the black sedan and ordered Mr Sathaporn to get out of the vehicle and surrender.

Narcotics Suppression Bureau commander Pol Lt Gen Sommai Kongwisaisook said Mr Sathaporn, a native of Maha Sarakham, was arrested, with three other gang members taken into custody in another location in the same district.

They are Poonsawas Phosu of Nakhon Phanom, Ritthichai Thassakorn of Sakon Nakhon and Sanpraset Ayawan, a Lao national from Paksan town in Borlikhamsay province.

Authorities found 4 million pills of yaba with the four men, he added.

Meanwhile, Phu Toey police in Wichian Buri also arrested two other suspects with 6,000 yaba pills.

Pol Lt Gen Sommai said one of them took Mr Sathaporn to buy 4 million yaba pills in Sang Khom.

The names of the two men arrested in Wichian Buri have not been released.

Narcotics suppression police and Narcotics Control Board officials in plainclothes arrest Sathaporn Thopbandit in Chiang Yuen district of Khon Kaen. (Narcotics Suppression Bureau video)

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