BANGKOK, June 17 (TNA) – Officials arrested suspects and intercepted 600 kilograms of compressed marijuana on its way from a neighboring country to inner Bangkok, accomplishing a three-month-long investigative mission.
Deputy national police chief Pol Gen Chalermkiat Srivorakhan said Songkiat Wongsrikaeo and Teerasak Chamnan were arrested with the bars of compressed marijuana weighing altogether 600 kilograms hidden on a six-wheeled truck.
According to the deputy police chief, investigators had monitored the suspects’ movements for three months after being tipped off that marijuana from a neighboring country would be smuggled into Udon Thani province before being transported to inner Bangkok. The suspects were arrested at a checkpoint in Si Khiu district of Nakhon Ratchasima province.
Pol Gen Chalermkiat also said that in another case, Tanakrit Nawachanta-angkun, 28, was arrested for allegedly selling 10 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine or ‘ice’.
A bag containing the drug was placed under a direction sign on Rangsit-Nakhon Nayok Road in Ongkarak district of Nakhon Nayok province. The suspect was arrested when he showed up at the Big C Sukhaphiban 3 store in Min Buri district of Bangkok to collect money for the drug. Police were hunting for his accomplices. (TNA)
