500,000 speed pills found hidden under car
published : 1 May 2024 at 13:28
writer: R May
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
A driver stopped in Chiang Mai was arrested after about half a million speed pills were found secured to the underside of his vehicle.
The drug courier, stopped in Chai Prakan district on Tuesday, had used wire mesh to secure plastic bags holding the drugs.
Soldiers from the Pha Muang task force and local police stopped a Toyota Avanza with Nakhon Pathom licence plates at the Pha Hong checkpoint on Highway 107 in Chai Prakan on Tuesday morning. The vehicle was travelling from the Thailand-Myanmar border area.
The officers found nothing illegal inside the vehicle. However, they noticed the driver was acting suspiciously. They then gave the vehicle a more thorough check.
The officers later spotted wire mesh under the vehicle. After removing the wire, they found plastic bags containing the speed pills, according to the Pha Muang task force.
Driver Santiparb, 58, of Khon Kaen, was arrested and handed over to Chai Prakan police for legal action. His surname was not disclosed.
Vocabulary
- checkpoint: a place where people are stopped and questioned and vehicles are examined, especially at a border between two countries - ด่านตรวจ
- courier: a person or company whose job is to take packages, important papers or, in this case, illegal drugs, somewhere - ผู้ส่งสาร
- disclose: to make known to the public - เปิดเผยต่อสาธารณะ
- licence plate: a flat piece of metal or plastic on the front and back of a vehicle that shows its license number - แผ่นป้ายทะเบียนรถยนต์
- mesh: material made of threads of plastic rope or wire that are twisted together like a net - ตาข่าย
- spotted (verb): seen; saw or noticed - สังเกตเห็น
- surname: a name shared by all the members of a family (written last in English names) - นามสกุล
- suspiciously: in a way that makes you believe that something is wrong, dangerous or illegal - อย่างน่าสงสัย
- task force: a group of people who are brought together to do a particular job, or a large military group who have a military aim to achieve - คณะทำงานเฉพาะกิจ, กองกำลังเฉพาะกิจ
- thorough: detailed and careful - ละเอียดถี่ถ้วน
- underside (noun): the bottom or lower side or surface of something -
