Police Seize 291 Kilograms of Ice Worth 580 Million Baht
We need to produce 1-2 sentences, 120-220 characters (max 240). Must be English. Lead with what happened, then the single most important detail (who, where, or when). So first clause: Police seized 291 kg of ice worth 580 million baht. Then
Acting on a tip, police stopped a white pickup truck with Phayao license plates at a gas station on Kanchanaphisek Road in Bangkok’s Taling Chan district on September 27. Inside the truck bed they found 291 kilograms of ice packed in eight brown cardboard boxes, along with a firearm and two mobile phones. The driver, 38‑year‑old Samrit, confessed he was hired by a drug network that communicated via Line, earning about 100,000 baht per trip and having made five or six deliveries to provinces such as Sing Buri, Ayutthaya, Ang Thong and Pathum Thani. The network’s tactic was to leave the drugs in a vehicle at a pre‑arranged drop‑off point for another party to collect with a ten‑wheel truck for onward shipment to the south. Samrit had collected the ice in Chon Buri and was about to hand it over at the gas station when apprehended. He was charged with possession of Category 1 drugs for sale and illegal carrying of a firearm, and the case was forwarded to the Narcotics Suppression Bureau. Other suspects remain under investigation.
