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Arrests, meth seized, B15m assets impounded

Bags containing 2 million methamphetamine pills seized at an auto repair garage in Muang district of Chiang Rai on Sunday. Seven suspects were also arrested. (Photo: Panumet Tanraksa)

CHIANG MAI: Seven suspects were arrested with 2 million methamphetamine pills in their possession and about 15 million baht of assets seized from them in a joint operation by provincial and narcotics control police.

The operation was on March 24. Details were relased on Monday.

Pol Lt Gen Piya Tawichai, the Provincial Police Region 5 commissioner, said the operation was a followup to the seizure of 440,000 meth pills in Chiang Rai’s Mae Fa Luang district on Dec 3, 2021.

The drugs were being trafficked by a network headed by man known as A-kuay, or…

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