There was one other meth bust in northeast Thailand final night, this time in Nakhon Phanom province. Rangers had been patrolling the Mekong River after they observed a group of men on a long-tail boat. The men took a sack out of the boat and left it on the riverbank before they sped off of their boat.
In the sack, the rangers discovered a hundred and eighty,000 meth pills, with a street worth of about 20 million baht. The drugs were divided into ninety plastic packages. They are believed to have been smuggled from Thailand into Laos, after which back into Thailand. Police Lieutenant Wanchat Muanpuen stated that over 10 tonnes of meth pills have been seized alongside the border in Nakhon Phanom this year.
This news comes after The Narcotic Suppression Bureau swooped on a drug cartel in the southern Songkhla province final week. Police impounded 631 kilograms of crystal meth, with a road value of 600 million baht. Police additionally confiscated three vehicles and a plot of land with a house suspected of being used for drug trafficking. Arrests had been made on June 22 and 402,000 meth pills had been seized in tambon Khuha Tai in Rattaphum district
In April, Thai police arrested greater than 120,000 drug suspects in the past six months. Special had seized greater than 2.4 billion baht in belongings and confiscated greater than 260 million tablets of unlawful substances, together with meth..