11 drug suspects caught in three raids

11 drug suspects caught in three raids

Eleven drug suspects have been arrested with 300,000 speed pills and 300kg of compressed marijuana seized from them in separate raids in Bangkok and two other provinces.

The 11 suspects, including nine Thais and two Lao nationals, were taken for a briefing at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) in Bangkok on Saturday, Thai media reported.

In the first raid, drug suppression police arrested three men at a car park of Max Value Phattanakan supermarket in Bangkok’s Suan Luang district after 100,000 speed pills, some crystal methamphetamine pills, two pistols, and four mobile phones were found in their pickup truck, said Pol Lt Gen Rewat  Klinkasorn, the NSB commissioner.

The trio were identified as Manas Hunkrajok, Rewat Lorkhunsiam and Nakhonphan Onsrisuk.

In the second operation in Nakhon Sawan province, police manning the Phayuha Khiri checkpoint stopped for a search a suspected car and found 200,006 speed pills hidden inside. Driver Vorakamon Choeythuen was caught. 

The suspect confessed he had bought the drugs from an ethnic minority group in a northern border province for sale in Lop Buri.

In the third raid, police arrested Mr Surachit Wilard and six other gang members, including two Lao nationals, at a resort in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Non Sung district and 300kg of compressed marijuana was seized from them.

They were caught after police posing as buyers had contacted Mr Surachit.

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