Ayutthaya Police Arrest Myanmar Driver Smuggling 14 Migrant Workers
Ayutthaya Highway Police arrested a 19-year-old Myanmar driver transporting 14 undocumented Myanmar workers from Tak to Chon Buri. The driver admitted being paid 5,000 baht per smuggling trip, while each worker paid brokers 35,000 baht to enter Thailand illegally through natural border crossings. All suspects were handed over to Maha Rat Police Station for prosecution.
On November 11, 2026, Pol. Lt. Col. Supakorn Tangkaprasert, Deputy Superintendent of Highway Police Sub-Division 1, Division 1, Bureau of Highway Police, revealed that Ayutthaya Highway Police were monitoring illegal entry by foreigners using vehicles to enter central provinces for work. They spotted a gray-black Isuzu MU-7 with Chiang Rai license plates traveling at speed with dark tinted windows and appearing heavier than normal on Highway 3267 (Ang Thong-Tha Ruea) passing through Ban Kham subdistrict, Maha Rat district, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province. Officers pursued and stopped the vehicle.
Upon inspection, they found the driver, Bhone Khant Aung, 19, a Myanmar national. Inside the vehicle were 14 Myanmar migrant workers hiding without passports or travel documents. Investigation revealed the driver was contacted via Messenger by a Myanmar man named 'Yaw' (full name unknown) to pick up illegal migrants in Tak province and deliver them to Chon Buri province for 5,000 baht per trip. The workers stated through an interpreter they had sneaked into Thailand through natural border crossings hoping to find work, each paying 35,000 baht to brokers.
Police initially detained all suspects and sent them to Maha Rat Police Station, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province. The driver faces charges of assisting or harboring illegal immigrants to evade arrest, while the migrant workers face charges of illegal entry and staying in the kingdom without permission before being processed according to law.
