PHRAE: Two alleged members of a drug trafficking network have been arrested and one million methamphetamine pills seized from them at separate police stops in Phrae and neighbouring Phayao provinces.
Chaipisit Onchoi, 47, of Ratchaburi was caught in Phrae province on Wednesday, and a woman, Waronya Chailangka, 35, of Chiang Rai, arrested in Phayao later the same day. Packages holding one million speed pills were found in their possession, police told a media briefing on Thursday.
In Phrae, police stopped a white Nissan Cefiro with Bangkok licence plates for a search at Nangfa checkpoint in Song district.
The found five sacks containing many packages containing 620,000 pills.
Mr Chaipisit, who drove the vehicle, told police he was hired by Ms Waronya to take the drugs from Chiang Rai to a dealer in Bangkok. He was to be paid 300,000 baht for completing the delivery and had been given 10,000 baht in advance. It was the second time he had done this.
Police said he told them Ms Waronya was travelling the same route in a grey Toyota with Bangkok licence plates. They radioed police along the road to stop her vehicle.
Ms Waronya was caught at Mae Tam checkpoint in Phayao’s Muang district. A search found 380,000 methamphetamine pills in her car.
Pol Maj Gen Panudet Boonruang, deputy commander of Provincial Police Region 5, said the two suspects were members of the same drug network. Traffickers were using secondary roads now to avoid being caught, he said.