Pathum Thani police set up a checkpoint and found a car with an expired tax plate, so they stopped it to inspect it. However, the driver was acting suspiciously and offered to bribe him in exchange for his release. The police asked to search the car and found more than 1.3 million methamphetamine pills. Pol. Lt. Gen. Jirasan Kaewsaeng-ek, Commander of Provincial Police Region 1, announced the results of the investigation police of Khlong Luang Police Station, Pathum Thani Province, who used their wits while setting up a checkpoint and found a car with a Nakhon Si Thammarat license plate driving into the checkpoint at the entrance to the white road, Phahonyothin Road (inbound), Khlong Nueng Subdistrict, with an expired tax plate. They stopped the car. It was found that both the driver and the passenger, later identified as Mr. Sutat, aged 27, and Mr. Wisanu, aged 39, from Surat Thani Province, were acting suspiciously and immediately offered to bribe the police in exchange for their release, but the police re
fused and asked to search the car, where they found 1,340,000 methamphetamine pills hidden in sacks and black bags wrapped in duct tape.
The suspect confessed that he received the methamphetamine from Saraburi Province to deliver to a customer in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, but was arrested by police at a checkpoint first. The police charged him with jointly possessing Category 1 narcotics, or methamphetamine, for sale.
Source: Thai News Agency