CHUMPHON - Highway Police on Wednesday morning arrested a drug dealer and seized 1.3 million methamphetamine pills, or yaba, with an estimated street value of 390 million baht.
File photo by Chinawat Singha
Highway Police chief Pongsit Sangphet said a pickup truck with a Por Mor 45 Chiang Mai (ผม 45 เชียงใหม่) licence plate was stopped at a checkpoint on Phetkasem Road in Chumphon's Muang district.
Officers at the checkpoint found the drugs hidden under a pile of vegetables in the back of the vehicle.
Ong-art Chengya, the driver, confessed that he was hired to deliver the speed pills from Ratchaburi province to a client in the southern province of Phuket, according to police.
The suspect is a Hmong tribesman from the northern Thailand.