Police finds 400,000 Yaba pills in car abandoned on Isaan road

The deputy commissioner of the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) and his team yesterday discovered 400,000 tablets of methamphetamine, also known as Yaba, in a car abandoned along the Sakhon Nakhon-Nakae Road in Khok Si Suphan, in the Isaan province of Sakhon Nakhon.

Deputy Commissioner of the CSD, Chatree Pongpaiboon, and his team members spotted a grey Toyota Yaris saloon and found it suspicious. Chatree initially thought that the saloon driver might need help, so he checked the car.

There was no driver or passengers present in the car but all of the doors on the vehicle were open. Chatree and other officers checked inside the car and caught a smell of dried squid from a blue sack inside. Officers decided to transfer the car to Khok Si Suphan Police Station.

Further investigation of the car and the blue sack led to the discovery of 100 packs of Yaba, totalling 400,000 pills. Police are now conducting further investigation into the owner of the car and the drug dealer.

Police suspect that the suspect abandoned the car at the scene, preparing to transfer the drugs to another vehicle but was intercepted by police before the operation.

Multiple drug confiscations were reported this month. Four drug dealers were arrested in Pattaya on July 17. A total of 206 grammes of ketamine and 1.7 grammes of Yaba were confiscated. On the same day, another drug bust was reported in the Isaan province of Mukdahan when police seized 240,000 Yaba pills from a drug dealer.

On July 18, 188 Yaba tablets were seized from two drug dealers in Phuket. On the same day, another drug dealer was arrested in the central province of Nakhon Pathom for distributing drugs to locals in the community. She claimed that she needed money to buy milk for her grandson.

A day later, on July 19, in Mae Hong Son province in northern Thailand, police confiscated six million Yaba pills and 21 kilogrammes of crystal meth in the forest.