CHON BURI: Two men have been arrested for possession of 50,400 methamphetamine pills that they intended to sell to customers in Pattaya, police said.
Pol Col Apichai Krobphet, the Pattaya police chief, said at a press conference on Sunday that Wiwat Buapha, 30, of Loei province, was arrested at a petrol station on Kanchanapisek road in Bangkok on Saturday in a sting operation. Police had learned that he had ordered meth pills from Bangkok to sell to customers in Pattaya, the police chief said.
Mr Wiwat was handing over 5,000 meth pills to a police decoy in exchange for a pistol at the petrol station when he was arrested, Pol Col Apichai Krobphet said. In a subsequent search of his room at a dormitory in the Bang Khae area, the police found 40,400 meth pills in the room.
Based on information obtained from Mr Wiwat, he continued, police then arrested another suspect, Thiti Yusomboon, 31, with another 5,000 meth pills at a housing estate in Bangkok.
The two allegedly confessed that they had ordered 100,000 meth pills at a time from a man called Chai, aged about 60 and a major drug dealer in Bangkok, for sales in Pattaya.