BANGKOK, July 15 (TNA) – Thai police have seized a haul
of narcotic drugs including heroin, methamphetamine and ketamine worth nearly 2
billion baht.
Deputy national police chief Pol General Chalermkiat
Srivorakhan on Sunday announced two separate drug busts at a press conference.
In the first case, drug traffickers were arrested along with
550 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in Samut Sakhon province on July
12.
Police later found 50 kilograms of crystal meth, 5,600,000
pills of methamphetamine, 15 kilograms of heroin and 51 kilograms of ketamine
at locations linked to the suspects.
The trafficking ring based in southern border province was
headed a man named Muhammad Bhutikhun, said Pol General Chalermkiat.
In the other bust, police intercepted a drug trafficking
attempt in Bangkok’s outskirts on July 1.
A suspected vehicle was ordered to stop but the driver sped it away and
later abandoned the car.
Police uncovered 890,000 tablets of methamphetamine on the car,
he said.
The narcotics along with seven cars and one motorcycles
confiscated from the two groups carried estimated value of nearly Bt2 billion,
said Pol General Chalermkiat.(TNA)
