So far for the 2020 fiscal year, 11 tonnes of crystal meth have been seized by authorities in 17 separate operations. According to the ONCB's operation centre, only 10.8 tonnes of the drug were seized in the whole of the 2019 fiscal year. During the Covid-19 lockdown easing from May–July, the Thai authorities made eight arrests in relation to the smuggling of over 100kg of crystal methamphetamine, accounting for 4.3 tonnes of the year's total so far. On July 11, Surat Thani police arrested three men for smuggling over one tonne of the drug hidden in cow dung. Over the past two weeks alone, officers made two consecutive arrests for drug trafficking in Surat Thani and Narathiwat and seized amounts of crystal methamphetamine weighing 2.44 tonnes in total.

Source: Bangkok Post July 13, 2020 22:41 UTC