Thread: 4m speed pills seized in Chiang Rai

Holy shit 4 million - the size of these seizures lately is staggering, they must really be mass producing this yaba up there in them hills. Apparently it's gotten real popular in Korea and Japan so doubt all these huge seizures are soley intended for the Thai market.

Originally Posted by 9999

Holy shit 4 million - the size of these seizures lately is staggering,

Are the Thai Police still rewarded financially for such finds? (1b a pill?)

If so, I have to wonder if there is a correlation.

^ What are the chances that the police will sell the pills themselves?

Originally Posted by 9999

Holy shit 4 million - the size of these seizures lately is staggering,

and what percentage do you think they are appending ?

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Pic-14.26-the 4,080,000 amphetamine pills seized today in Chiang Rai are displayed bit.ly/A3q5jR RT @Reporter_Js1

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Further bust in the Chiang Rai area also today.........

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingn...00-speed-pills

3 arrested with 200,000 speed pills

• Published: 2/03/2012 at 03:59 PM
• Online news:

Police arrested three men with 200,000 speed pills in their possession in Chiang Rai's Mae Sai district on Friday, Pol Col Thanomsak Yospen, the Mae Sai police chief, said.

Acting on a tip-off, Mae Sai and narcotics suppression officers hid in wait in front of the immigration checkpoint near the Mae Sai - Myawaddy bridge in Mae Sai district.

They spotted a white van crossing the bridge from Myawaddy as predicted, and followed it to the Regina Hotel in tambon Wiang Phang Kham.

At the hotel, the driver, identified later as Surachet Taluang, 52, was met by Chamras Prompanya, a hotel security guard, and they both took two plastic bags out of the van.

Police then moved in for a search and found out the two bags contained 200,000 speed pills.

The two said they were paid 60,000 baht to deliver the drugs to a person they named as Thongdee Sriwichai in Mae Sai district, Pol Col Thanomsak said.

Mr Thongdee was later arrested. He admitted to having ordered the speed pills from Myanmar and the drugs were to be further sent to Bangkok, the Mae Sai police chief said.

Police investigations were continuing.

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Pic-14.54-The 3 men arrested with 200,000, Chiang Rai's Mae Sai today, drugs desined for Bangkok bit.ly/AEMcuq RT @Reporter_Js1

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Thai policemen guard packages containing more than 4 million methamphetamine tablets seized in the northern province of Chiang Rai prior to a press conference at Police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March. 2, 2012. The seizure was one of the biggest ever of the illegal drug, believed to have been produced in neighboring Myanmar, according to a local report.

AP News: Thai police net 4 million methamphetamine pills

Thai police net 4 million methamphetamine pills

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BANGKOK (AP) - Thai police said they confiscated more than 4 million methamphetamine tablets Friday in northern Thailand in one of the largest such seizures in the country in recent years.

The pills were seized when a pickup truck was stopped at a checkpoint early Friday morning in Chiang Rai province, which borders Myanmar, a police department statement said.

The government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, which took office last August, has declared suppression of the drug trade one of its priorities. In late January, police made another major seizure of methamphetamine, confiscating 3.8 million tablets and 156 pounds (71 kilograms) of crystal meth found hidden in an empty house in Bangkok's northern outskirts.

Thailand is a leading market and transit point for methamphetamine, much of which is produced in neighboring Myanmar.

Yingluck's brother Thaksin Shinawatra also launched a war on drugs when he was prime minister from 2001 to 2006.

The campaign was popular in some rural areas and slums where the scourge of methamphetamine had led to soaring addiction and crime. But Thaksin's war on drugs drew the ire of human rights advocates, who charged that it involved the extrajudicial executions of alleged dealers.

Thai authorities claimed then that the increased number of drug-related killings involved shootouts and infighting among traffickers.

Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung, who is in charge of the current campaign, said in September that previous mistakes wouldn't be repeated and that "there will be no license to kill."

In Friday's seizure, two suspects fled after abandoning the drugs, which were packed in 34 backpacks, each containing 120,000 tablets, the police statement said.

The drug-laden backpacks were flown to Bangkok in the company of combat-equipped special unit police from Chiang Rai and were displayed at a news conference attended by Chalerm.

Chalerm told reporters that the traffickers' movement of such a large number of pills in a single shipment implied that there was a shortage of the drug in Thailand so they had to take risks to meet the market demand.

In a separate incident, police in Chiang Rai on Thursday night arrested three men they alleged were transporting 200,000 methamphetamine tablets.

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Drug suspect has assets seized worth over Bt100 million

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BANGKOK, March 3 -- Authorities have seized assets worth about Bt100 million from a suspected member of a major drug syndicate in northern Chiang Rai province.

Chiang Rai's Mae Sai police chief, Pol Col Thanomsak Yospan led police and drug suppression agency-the Office of the Narcotics Control Board on a raid of the home of Thongdee Sriwichai, 44, a leading member of a major drug trafficking syndicate. He ran a shuttle van for a casino at the border town of Tachilek in Myanmar.

Mr Thongdee was arrested on March 1 after the authorities detained Mr Surachet Taluang and Chamras Prompanya with 200,000 speed pills in two plastic bags.

The duo said they were paid Bt60,000 to deliver drugs to a person they identified as Thongdee Sriwichai in Mae Sai district.

Mr Thongdee reportedly confessed that he ordered the speed pills from Myanmar and the drugs were to be further sent to Bangkok.

After the raid, authorities seized a plot of land with house and fitness equipment, two cars, a van and a motorcycle. In addition, a 50 rai lychee orchard and a herd of Charolay cows were seized, bringing the total value to about Bt100 million. (MCOT online news)

Authorities have seized assets worth about Bt100 million from a suspected member of a major drug syndicate in northern Chiang Rai province.

authorities seized a plot of land with house and fitness equipment, two cars, a van and a motorcycle. In addition, a 50 rai lychee orchard and a herd of Charolay cows were seized

This RTP gang is certainly the one to be in!

Great to see such a big haul get pulled in.

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Mr Thongdee reportedly confessed that he ordered the speed pills from Myanmar and the drugs were to be further sent to Bangkok.

Well you really got to give it to the Thai cops. They certainly have their 'ways' of getting fast, concise confessions.

Could it have been those backpacks were supposed to have been given to as many couriers, each of whom would take different buses/cars/cycles/routes? And could it have been someone decided to steal the drugs instead of handing them over to the couriers? Yet...what kind of idiot would try and run a cop/army checkpoint loaded with drug backpacks in the back of a truck?

Police in northern Thailand seize 2.5 million methamphetamine pills; 2nd huge bust in 2 days
Friday, March 16

BANGKOK — Thai security forces have seized their second multimillion haul of methamphetamine pills in two days, bringing the total this year to more than 12 million tablets.

Police Col. Surachet Thopunyanon said a joint military-police force found 2.5 million methamphetamine tablets and 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of crystal meth Friday at a house in Chiang Rai, Thailand’s northernmost province bordering Myanmar and Laos. He said one Thai man and two Thai women were arrested.


Thai policemen guard packages containing about 2 million methamphetamine pills seized in Lampang province, prior to a press conference at the police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 16, 2012.

Police Col. Suthep Chutimapanya said about 2 million pills were found in a pickup truck abandoned by four suspects near a drug checkpoint in Lampang province’s Maeprik district.

One male suspect was captured, but three others escaped even though helicopters were trying to track them.
( Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press )

Thailand is a leading market and transit point for methamphetamine, much of it produced in Myanmar.

The year’s biggest seizure of more than 4 million tablets was made at a checkpoint in Chiang Rai two weeks ago.

About 2 million tablets were seized Thursday in the northern province of Lampang.

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Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

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AP Photo 2 hours ago
Thai policemen guard packages containing more than 4 million methamphetamine tablets seized in the northern province of Chiang Rai prior to a press conference at Police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March. 2, 2012. The seizure was one of the biggest ever of the illegal drug, believed to have been produced in neighboring Myanmar, according to a local report.

Who counted them?

The cops could be making their own to show as busts. Certainly the supply is still there.

Originally Posted by Lantern

Great to see such a big haul get pulled in.

It makes little difference.

It will be on the street within a few weeks and some high ranking Thai police will be substantially richer.

I suspect they go by weight. What's the loss or gain of a hundred pills at this level.