B884m worth of speed pills seized after car chase

B884m worth of speed pills seized after car chase

Police display the seized 8.84 million methamphetamine pills valued at 884 million baht, at the Provincial Police Region 1 head office.(Photo supplied)
Police display the seized 8.84 million methamphetamine pills valued at 884 million baht, at the Provincial Police Region 1 head office.(Photo supplied)

More than eight million methamphetamine pills were confiscated and two men arrested after a brief car chase in Sing Buri's Bang Rachan district, police said.

The arrests were made early on Sunday morning when police acting on a tip-off that drugs were being  smuggled from the north to the central province set up a roadside checkpoint on Route 4036.

The arrested suspects were in one of two pickup trucks that matched the informant's description. Both sped away when they saw the checkpoint, and were pursued.

The driver of one truck, with Nakhon Sawan plates, lost control and it came to a halt. Two men were detained.

The other pickup truck, with Bangkok licence plates, was found abandoned near a temple in tambon Sing in the same district. The driver had fled.

Fifty-two large plastic bags containing 8.84 million speed pills in total were found in the pickup truck with Nakhon Sawan plates. Police estimated the value of the drugs at 884 million baht.

The suspects were identified as Weeranit sae Ma, 30, and Prasit Chaipattanayothin, 24, both from Tak. They were charged with having illegal drugs in possession with intent to distribute.

Mr Prasit said he was paid 2 million baht by a foreign national to transport the meth from Tak to Ayutthaya. He hired Mr Weeranit as the driver, offering him 500,000 baht.

According to police, the seizure was the result of an extended investigation following the earlier seizure of 11.8 million speed pills in the province in late July this year. They were tracking down the runaway driver of the second truck.

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