Three drug suspects have been arrested with large hauls of methamphetamine pills and crystal methamphetamine in two separate cases over the weekend. According to provincial police commissioner Suwat Jaengyodsuk, Kongkiat, aka Tee Sae-tin, a 24-year-old Samut Prakan man, was apprehended along with 554,000 speed pills and crystal meth weighing 1.4 kilogrammes in Bangkok on Saturday night. Officers later identified themselves and conducted a search which at the time found 6,000 speed pills, or ya ba, and crystal meth, ya ice, weighing one gramme inside his bag. Police then searched his room on the fifth floor where 548,000 speed pills and ya ice weighing 1.3kg were also discovered and impounded, bringing the total number of speed pills to 554,000 and crystal meth to 1.4kg. Police confiscated 10,000 speed pills, an Ayutthaya-registered Isuzu pickup truck and two cellphones from them.

Source: Bangkok Post May 28, 2018 23:26 UTC