Picture courtesy of Khaosod.

 

Two men were arrested at a security checkpoint in Chiang Rai after attempting to smuggle 60 kilograms of compressed heroin to Bangkok aboard a long-distance coach.

 

At approximately 09:30 on 2 August, police officers from Phan Police Station conducted a routine inspection at the Pu Kaeng checkpoint. Officers stopped a Sombat Tour coach operating the Chiang Rai–Bangkok route and noticed suspicious behaviour from two male passengers.

 

Upon searching the men’s luggage, police discovered two suitcases containing a total of 120 blocks of compressed heroin, weighing approximately 60 kilograms. The illicit drugs were carefully concealed inside the suitcases.

 

The suspects were identified as:

 

1. Mr Han 26, a resident of Moo 6, Muang Yai Subdistrict, Wiang Kaen District, Chiang Rai Province

 

2. Mr Yeer Vang, 29, a Laotian national

 

Both men were taken into custody and will face charges relating to the illegal possession and transportation of narcotic substances.

 

Authorities are continuing their investigation to determine the source and intended recipients of the drugs in Bangkok.

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from Khoasod 2025-08-03

 

 

 

On 8/3/2025 at 5:28 AM, Georgealbert said:

Two men were arrested at a security checkpoint in Chiang Rai after attempting to smuggle 60 kilograms of compressed heroin to Bangkok aboard a long-distance coach.

Peddlers of misery

Government should set up a Fast Track lane for those carrying cocaine and heroin. These idiot mules will use them.

On 8/3/2025 at 5:28 AM, Georgealbert said:

police discovered two suitcases containing a total of 120 blocks of compressed heroin, weighing approximately 60 kilograms. The illicit drugs were carefully concealed inside the suitcases.

 

I don't think it's possible to "carefully conceal" 60kg of drugs in a suitcase...

 

On 8/3/2025 at 5:28 AM, Georgealbert said:

Officers stopped a Sombat Tour coach operating the Chiang Rai–Bangkok route

 

At those checkpoints in Chiang Rai, they normally stop all trucks and buses, and wave cars through. Why did these fools take a bus?

23 minutes ago, khunjeff said:

 

I don't think it's possible to "carefully conceal" 60kg of drugs in a suitcase...

 

 

At those checkpoints in Chiang Rai, they normally stop all trucks and buses, and wave cars through. Why did these fools take a bus?

It was cheaper to take the bus than rent a car or truck. Great advanced planning. Must have been their first time and it will be their last.

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Oops ! 😂

Weird. The culprits must have know the bus was going to pass through that checkpoint. So why did they act in a suspicious way? They should have been prepared!

 

 

Hoping for a compressed sentence maybe?

On 8/3/2025 at 5:28 AM, Georgealbert said:

and noticed suspicious behaviour

what this would have been?

4 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

what this would have been?

2 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

Sure,

but it's not in this article that police was inside the bus??

If I were producing heroin on an industrial scale I wouldn't be entrusting these two muppets to look after it for 5 minutes. 

There was a time not so very long ago when the consequence for anyone caught smuggling narcotics would have been a summary execution.

 

Do these lowlifes now deserve due process.?

 

 

2 minutes ago, PopGun said:

There was a time not so very long ago when the consequence for anyone caught smuggling narcotics would have been a summary execution.

 

Do these lowlifes now deserve due process.?

 

 

 

Before you execute them....yes..... even more so!

10 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Sure,

but it's not in this article that police was inside the bus??

Have you ever been on a bus through one of these checkpoints? They usually board the bus, and check everyone's ID, and/or conduct other searches.

60 kgs is 132 pounds!  I didn't know that compressed heroin is so dense,  132 lbs in one suitcase for the number of bricks seemingly shown in one of the photos?

8 hours ago, BrandonJT said:

Have you ever been on a bus through one of these checkpoints? They usually board the bus, and check everyone's ID, and/or conduct other searches.

I never saw them checking your suitcases.

2 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

I never saw them checking your suitcases.

You asked how they noticed the men were acting strange.  Because they boarded the bus.  Why do you keep acting like you don't know what anyone is talking about? You are the one who asked how they noticed the men were acting strange. I explained it's because they board the bus and check everyone's ID.  THAT is why they then checked the suitcases.  Follow the dots. It's not difficult.