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Two arrested in B12m drug bust

PHUKET: Police made a major drug bust on Saturday (August 11), seizing more than 20,000 methamphetamine (ya ba) pills and almost a kilo of crystal meth (ya ice), with a street value of around B12 million.


By Paritta Wangkiat

Tuesday 14 August 2012 06:23 PM


The drugs were seized from two men at a the office of a delivery company on Viset Rd In Rawai.

The arrest of the two men, Kittisak Sae-ieaw, 39, from Kathu, and Dusit Chaipan, 30, from Petchaboon, came after a police detective discovered that they had regularly sent parcels contained drug via a delivery company in Bangkok.

The men would buy the drugs, hand the parcel over to the shipping company and then go back to Phuket where they would collect the parcel.

On August 9, the two were reported to have delivered a parcel to Pitakporn delivery company in Bangkok for sending to its office in Phuket.

Phuket police kept an eye on the company’s office in Rawai and spotted the duo going into the office on Saturday to pick up the parcel.

When arrested the two admitted the parcel, which contained 20,000 ya ba pills and 968 grams of ya ice, was theirs.

They agreed to take police to a hotel room they rented on Soi Kathu Waterfall where officers found another 30 ya ba pills, a 9mm pistol and a .22 pistol.

They were charged with possession of drugs for sale and possession of firearms without permits.