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Seven busted with 1.5m meth pills

BANGKOK: Seven people were caught and 1.5 million methamphetamine pills seized in four coordinated raids in Chiang Mai, Pathun Thani, Bangkok and Rayong provinces this morning (May 21), Manager Online reported.

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By Bangkok Post

Thursday 21 May 2015 04:49 PM


Police chief Somyot Pumpunmuang, standing right, shows six of the drug suspects at the Royal Thai Police Office in Bangkok. Photo Bangkok Post

Police chief Somyot Pumpunmuang, standing right, shows six of the drug suspects at the Royal Thai Police Office in Bangkok. Photo Bangkok Post

At the first location in Chiang Mai’s Mae Taeng district, authorities arrested Sanchai Laoyang, 36, in a search of a house in Moo 5 village of tambon Ban Chang and a car on the Mae Taeng-to-Pai road, and seized a total of 200,000 speed pills.

Another 800,000 methamphetamine pills were seized at the parking lot of a department store in Pathum Thani’s Rangsit area. Four suspects were arrested.

At the third location, the parking area of a department store on Ram-intra road in Bangkok, authorities arrested one suspect with 232,000 speed pills.

A search of the fourth target in Rayong province resulted in the arrest of a suspect with 330,000 methamphetamine pills.

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