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Large amount of meth, heroin on pickup

Packages containing 1.8 million methamphetamine pills and 8.7 kilogrammes of heroin, seized from a pickup at a checkpoint in Chiang Dao district, Chiang Mai, on Tuesday night. The driver, sitting, was arrested. (Photo: Panumet Tanraksa)

CHIANG MAI: A large quantity of methamphetamine and heroin was seized from a pickup, and the driver arrested, at a military checkpoint in Chiang Dao district on Tuesday night.

Pha Muang Force commander Maj Gen Narit Thawornwong said at a press conference on Wednesday that the Isuzu pickup was stopped and searched on rural road 1178 at Lo Pa Han, or Moo 4 village, in tambon Muang Na.

The vehicle was  loaded with packages containing 1,252,000 methamphetamine pills and about 8.75 kilogrammes of heroin, believed to have been smuggled across the border in the North.

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