CityNews –The Chang Peuk Police, Immigration Police and Tourist Police joined forces to sweep up illegal aliens yesterday, 10th September making many arrests as well as confiscating heroin.
A total of 22 targets were raided in Chiang Mai including apartments, hotels, condominiums and homes.
It was discovered that three hotels were not reporting illegal aliens as guests, which is illegal, and ten illegal aliens were arrested in the sting. Police suspect that there are many more hiding in Chiang Mai.
They also caught one man in possession of 62 tubes of heroin. Police say that they will next look at orchards which may have built shacks in them to house illegal aliens.