In Korat, the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, police discovered four males in possession of greater than 1.eight tonnes of dried marijuana and arrested them. The arrest occurred this morning in accordance with the Provincial Police Region 3 commissioner.
Police had ramped up patrols of the Mitrapap highway after receiving a tip that a big cargo of compressed marijuana would travel along that route, from Khon Kan to Nakhon Ratchasima. The teams that have been looking out alongside the freeway pulled over 3 vans early this morning that have been travelling between Sida and Non Daeng districts when police pulled them over.
The first van had a sticker on it from a Thai media affiliation, and police say it was acting as a lookout automotive as the convoy travelled across Thailand. The other two vans, nonetheless, had been full of unlawful drugs, about 1,824 kilogrammes of dried marijuana.
According to the police, the ganja stash they seized from the 2 vans has a street resale worth of about one hundred ten million baht.
The four males who had been travelling within the three vans had been all Thai nationals, aged between 24 and 39 years old. They have been all arrested and brought into custody.
โซล่าเซลล์ are alleged to have confessed to the crime, stating that that they had been paid 50,000 baht to transport the marijuana and that it had come from a border province in the North of Thailand. They have been tasked with delivering it as far as Bangkok, the place the drug haul can be additional shipped to the south of the nation.
All 4 men have been arrested on charges of possession of illegal medication with the intent to sell..