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Drug courier motorcyclist caught on border with crystal meth

Win, a Myanmar national, 27, squatting, with packs of crystal methamphetamine after his arrest by a village security team in Sangkhla Buri district of Kanchanaburi on Wednesday. (Photo: Piyarat Chongcharoen)

KANCHANABURI: A motorcyclist was arrested making a drug delivery and 50 kilogammes of crystal methamphetamine seized at a border village in Sangkhla Buri district.

A village security team stopped the man at Jokhiphue forest village around 6pm on Wednesday.

They had been tipped off that smugglers would use the Takhianthong-Jokhiphue-Sanaephong road in tambon Liwor to make a delivery of drugs, police told a media briefing on Thursday.

Niophon Tetapha, the headman of Sanephong village who led the team, asked to search the sack the motorcyclist was carrying.

The man, identified later as Win, a Myanmar…

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