Suspects use ambulance to smuggle speed pills
published : 8 Jun 2022 at 09:36
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
Police will issue arrest warrants for two more men and a woman suspected of smuggling 2.25 million methamphetamine pills from the Northeast into Bangkok.
Police have arrested two men involved in the drug smuggling. The drugs were found hidden in an ambulance.
The two suspects were arrested at Soi Hathairat 39 in Min Buri district on Monday.
They were in a pickup truck that was leading the ambulance loaded with the speed pills. The pickup truck and the ambulance were abandoned at Soi Hathairat 39.
A couple who owned the ambulance left their vehicle and fled in a rescue pickup truck driven by another gang member.
According to an investigation, the gang had smuggled illicit drugs from the Northeast to the Central Plains several times. They had been hired 150,000 to 300,000 baht for each delivery.
Vocabulary
- abandon: to leave someone/something - ปล่อยทิ้งไว้
- ambulance : a vehicle for taking people to hospital - รถพยาบาล
- flee (past form: fled) (verb): to leave a place or person quickly because you are afraid of possible danger or consequences - หนี
- illicit: against the law - ผิดกฎหมาย
- investigation: the process of trying to find out all the details or facts about something in order to discover who or what caused it or how it happened - การสอบสวน, การตรวจสอบหาข้อเท็จจริง
- loaded: full of - เต็มไปด้วย
- methamphetamine: a stimulant drug that increases alertness and energy, but which is dangerous when taken in large amounts or over a long period of time - ยาบ้า
- smuggling: secretly and illegally taking goods or people into or out of a country or place - การลักลอบ
- suspect: a person who is thought to have committed a crime - ผู้ต้องสงสัย
