Police seize 600 kg of marijuana and arrest four couriers
Thai police stopped a Toyota van at a Nakhon Ratchasima checkpoint on 21 May 2009, seizing 600 kilogrammes of marijuana bound for Ayutthaya and arresting four suspects. The driver said the group had been hired for 15,000 baht to deliver the drug.
🇹🇭 Police checkpoint at a traffic flyover, Muang district, Nakhon Ratchasima · Thailand
Police intercepted an attempt to smuggle 600 kilogrammes of marijuana from
Mukdahan to Ayutthaya and arrested four suspects.[1]Officers stopped the
four at a police checkpoint at a traffic flyover in Muang district, Nakhon
Ratchasima.[1]Deputy Police Commissioner-General Jongrak Juthanon and
Provincial Police Bureau 3 Commissioner Krissada Phankhongchuen announced the
arrest at a press conference on 21 May 2009.[1]
The four were identified as Thawee Phosim, 43, Adulsak Khampila, 40, Thiwa
Jungjun, 25, and Tim Phosim, 47.[1]The drug was hidden inside a Toyota
van.[1]Thawee told police the group had been hired to deliver the drug to
a person in Ayutthaya for 15,000 baht.[1]
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