Two arrested with 900,000 meth pills and 3kg of ‘ice’ in Chiang Rai

Road in Mueang Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand. Photo: pxhere.
Two suspected drug smugglers were arrested at a Chiang Rai hotel following a brief gunfight with police after which 900,000 methamphetamine pills and three kilograms of crystal meth were seized.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of narcotics suppression police staked out at a border point in Ban Tham Phatong in Tambon Tha Sud in Chiang Rai’s Muang district. They saw a car come out of the forest at 12.10am on Saturday.
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