CHIANG MAI: More than 5 million speed pills and 185kg of crystal methamphetamine have been found hidden in a cave deep inside a border forest in Chiang Dao district.
The huge stash was discovered when border patrol police and troops from the Pha Muang military task force were searching for smuggled drugs along main and secondary routes, and natural border crossings, near the border with Myanmar in tambon Ping Khong of Chiang Dao district on Thursday.
The joint task force, led by Pol Lt Col Dilok Arinpeng, chief of the 335th Border Patrol Police Unit, received information that smugglers had stored illicit drugs in the forest, intending to distribute them to customers.
In a small cave in the forest between Bang Nong Tao and Ban Thamkaeb they discovered 54 sacks containing 5.4 million methamphetamine pills and 10 sacks containing 185kg of crystal methamphetamine, according to the army public relations Facebook page.
Thai media reported that the area where the drugs were seized is near a base of a Myanmar ethnic minority group which operates a factory producing the drugs.
Packs of speed pills and crystal methamphetamine found inside sacks seized from a cave in Chiang Dao district of Chiang Mai. (Photo taken from @armyprcenter Facebook page)