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Police suspect drugs behind cough syrup find

By The Nation
Published on February 8, 2011

Police yesterday arrested two men allegedly with 5,000 bottles of a suspicious substance, believed to have contained a precursor chemical for illicit drugs.

The bottles are labelled as cough syrup, but police are not convinced.

The syrup will be sent for lab tests before drug charges are pressed against the two suspects.

Currently, both face charges of having medicines in their possession to sell without a licence.

"We believe the cough syrup is intended for drug making in the deep South," Bang Pong Pang Police Station inspector Lt Col Karnnatee Srinathom said.

The arrest of the two suspects took place after a transportation company alerted police about a suspicious delivery. The company had provided services to the suspects many times before, without knowing the goods contained illicit substances. The company's driver was arrested on February 5 after police in the South found cocaine ingredients among the goods.

When the same suspects requested the transportation services again, the company informed police.