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DEA Team up with Chiang Rai Police in Drugs Swoop

March 30, 2012

CityNews – Police and soldiers, along with DEA agents from USA arrested a drug kingpin in Chiang Rai on March 22nd.

The arrested man, a 56 year old from Phayao was found with 350,000 amphetamine pills, 5 kilograms of Ice along with 198,000 fake thousand bank notes. The man is yet to be named.

Later the offender confessed that he was going to deliver the drugs to someone in Phitsanulok. He told police that the bank notes in the car were his payment but he didn’t realise they were fake.