CHIANG RAI, Oct 19 – Some 450,000 methamphetamine (or meth) pills were seized in a Chiang Rai drug bust operation, as two drug smugglers evaded arrest. Chiang Rai Governor Pongsak Wangsamer told a press briefing that his special drug suppression unit has seized some 450,000 meth pills and one motorcycle at Tha Sut subdistrict in […]
CHIANG MAI, July 6 – Thai police apprehended two Hmong ethnic minorities for smuggling 300,000 methamphetamine pills from a northern province en route to the capital. Provincial Police Region 5 commander Pol Lt Gen Suthep Dechraksa said the pair of Hmong, identified as Suchart Seaya, 23, and Saensam Saelee, 20, were arrested in Chiang Rai […]
CHIANG RAI, July 3 – The Thai police arrested three suspected drug dealers at a resort in the northern province of Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district and seized 8.5 kilogrammes of heroin. Pol Maj Chamnan Ruadrew, Deputy Commissioner of Provincial Police Bureau Region 5, questioned the three Myanmar national drug suspects — one woman and […]
CHIANG RAI, May 30 – The forward landing gear of Thailand’s low-cost carrier Nok Air fell off this morning as the aircraft was landing at Mae Fah Luang-Chiang Rai International Airport. There were 162 passengers on the plane. No one was injured as other landing wheels helped support the aircraft to stop safety on the […]
A drugs haul of more than 1.6 million yaba (methamphetamine) pills and 43 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine worth over Bt600 million was seized in Chiang Rai early yesterday. The drugs were discovered when a group of seven men crossing the Sai River from Myanmar to Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district dropped their loads and fled […]
CHIANG RAI, May 4 — Five drug traffickers were killed in a shootout with soldiers at Chiang Rai’s Mae Fah Luang district early Saturday morning, according to the 3rd Army Pha Muang Task Force commander Somsak Nilbanjerdkul. Maj Gen Somsak, Chiang Rai police chief Pol Maj Gen Wanchai Suwansirikhet and Director of Narcotics Control Office, […]
BANGKOK, April 25 – The Thai authorities arrested drug smugglers and seized more than one million methamphetamine during the past three days as drug smuggling along the borders with neighbouring countries is on the rise, Deputy Premier Chalerm Yubamrung said on Thursday. Mr Chalerm said police searched a suspicious vehicle in Chiang Rai’s Mae Fah […]
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand Chalerm Yoobamrung yesterday announced that 484,000 yaba tablets and 43 kilograms of crystal meth or “ice” worth Bt200 million on the street had been seized in three separate drug busts. Read more: The Nation
