Five arrested with 6.4m speed pills destined for South

Police arrest drug suspects at a rented house in Lam Luk Ka district, Pathum Thani, on Saturday evening. (Photo: Pongpat Wongyala)
Police arrest substance defendants at a rented home in Lam Luk Ka area, Pathum Thani, on Saturday night. ( Photo: Pongpat Wongyala )

In Lam Luk Ka area, authorities detained five offenders who were armed with 6.4 million meth tablets that had not yet been distributed to the South.

At around 4o’clock on Saturday, authorities in tambon Lad Sawai made four arrests for a woman and a man in the Pruksa 17 enclosure estate.

At the home, authorities found the velocity pills in packages. Police believed the illegal drugs were smuggled from the North and kept in Pathum Thani until supply, according to Pol Maj Gen Adit Charoensawat, the commander of the Narcotics Suppression Division 3.

The suspects had rented the property for three weeks, and the frequency tablets would have been shipped to the South. The captain claimed that the suspects had been detained for drug offenses and had since returned to the illegal trade after serving their sentences.

One of the defendants who was detained admitted to driving a car to Ang Thong county to police. He placed the car it, and the medicines were loaded onto the car. Then he returned the car to the Pathum Thani rented home.

His party packed rate pills and sent them to customers, mostly in the South, the think said.

Officers discovered loaded frequency pills on the car parked next to the rented property. ( Photo: Pongpat Wongyala )

Officers discovered loaded frequency pills on the car parked next to the rented property. ( Photo: Pongpat Wongyala )

In the occupied home, more speed medication boxes were kept. ( Photo: Pongpat Wongyala )

In the occupied home, more speed medication boxes were kept. ( Photo: Pongpat Wongyala )