900kg of drugs nabbed at Phuket border

Phuket Gazette

 

The driver was charged with possession of a category 5 drug with intention to sell. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

PHUKET: Police arrested a man with 900 kilograms of the illicit drug krathom, worth about 450,000 baht, at the Tah Chat Chai checkpoint on Saturday night.

“We were conducting a random check following the policy of keeping an eye on every vehicle entering Phuket. So we stopped a pick-up truck and asked to search the vehicle,” said Tah Chat Chai Police superintendent Col Prawit Sutthirueangarun.

The driver, Sumet Lamoot, 35, confessed that the krathom belonged to him. 

 

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a nice future will be awaiting him im sure.

With 900 kg that suggests  good market in Phuket.  I very much doubt with that business the driver, who confessed it was his, was really the drug king pin. After saying that of course  it should be made legal as it does more good than harm.  This country is going to pot.