300 kg of cannabis found in abandoned car after Khon Kaen chase
Highway police recovered 300 kilograms of compressed marijuana from an abandoned Toyota Vios in Nam Phong district, Khon Kaen, in the early hours of 3 July 2016. The driver broke through a checkpoint and fled on foot, and was not found.
Highway police seized300 kilograms of compressed marijuana from an abandoned car after a chase in Khon Kaen province in the early hours of Sunday.[1]The seizure was made at about 3am after a black Bangkok-registered Toyota Vios broke through a checkpoint between kilometres 360 and 361 on Mitraphap road at tambon Muang Wan in Nam Phong district without stopping for a search.[1]
Police gave chase and found the car abandoned about five kilometres from the checkpoint.[1]Inside were seven bags holding 300 bars of dried marijuana weighing about 300 kilograms.[1]The driver was not found.[1]The commander of the Khon Kaen Highway Police, Pol Col Apichart Phochan, announced the seizure.[1]
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