Phuket

Motorbike taxi driver caught with yaba

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Wednesday, July 21, 1999 06:32

TAMBON MAIKAO: A motorbike taxi driver, stopped yesterday at a police checkpoint because he looked suspicious, was found to be carrying 200 amphetamine (yaba) pills in the lining of his helmet. Police, who set the checkpoint at Tambon Maikao near Thalang said the 30-year-old man admitted he had bought the drugs in his home town in Phlypraya District in Krabi Province for 70 baht a pill, and intended to sell them to fishermen in Phuket for 150 baht each. He was charged with possession of drugs with intent to traffic.

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