SONGKHLA: Police have seized 88,000 methamphetamine pills on their way to the Thai-Malaysian border after shadowing traffickers for three months.
Security authorities in Chana district on Sunday ordered a targeted car to pull over for a search and they found 88,000 ya ba tablets hidden in two backpacks.
Driver Sakkri Lateh, 32, a native of Pattani, was arrested and was being interrogated about his accomplices.
Deputy district chief Somsak Chusee claimed the driver had confessed he was delivering the drugs from Hat Yai district to a customer in Sungai Kolok district in Narathiwat.
Mr Somsak said authorities had shadowed the suspect and his gang for three months, but until now had failed to seize any meth.
An advanced car would alert the driver about a checkpoint and order the vehicle transporting the drugs to call off the delivery, he said.
This time, authorities hid on a roadside and let the advanced car pass by first, and then came out of hiding to arrest the target, he added.
The seized drugs had an estimated value of 8 million baht on the black market.