Police arrest “major drug dealer” in the Isaan region

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Police say they’ve arrested a “major drug dealer” at a sugarcane farm in the Isaan province Khon Kaen and seized thousands of methamphetamine pills.

Police say they’ve been looking for 25 year old Sukree Chaukhamhod for a while and were recently tipped off that the alleged drug dealer frequently goes to a sugarcane farm in the Nam Phong district.

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Officers were deployed to the farm and waited for Sukree to show up. The suspect drove in on a motorcycle and was walking to the farm when was confronted by police. Officers say they found 84,000 methamphetamine pills and 3 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in his possession. Police questioned Sukree and searched the farm, finding another 108,000 methamphetamine pills.

SOURCE: Bangkok Post

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Caitlin Ashworth

Caitlin Ashworth is a writer from the United States who has lived in Thailand since 2018. She graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies in 2016. She was a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette In Massachusetts. She also interned at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia and Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida.

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