Border Patrol Intercepts Drug-Laden Pickup Truck, Arrests Driver and Seizes 2 Million Methamphetamine Pills
Border Patrol Police in Chiang Mai intercepted a pickup truck and arrested the driver after discovering 2 million methamphetamine pills during a checkpoint operation near the northern border.
Chiang Mai — Border Patrol Police Region 335 set up an emergency checkpoint following a tip-off about illegal drug smuggling from the border into Chiang Dao town in Chiang Mai province. At 2:30 AM on May 24, officers spotted the target vehicle (Chiang Mai license plate 5218) heading toward Ban Nam Roo and ordered it to stop. The driver accelerated and fled, but patrol teams managed to intercept and arrest the suspect, identified as Abepha Wajia, a resident of Ban Pa Muang Ngam in Chiang Dao district. During the search of the pickup truck, authorities discovered 2,000,000 methamphetamine pills. The suspect admitted to being hired to transport the drugs but claimed not to know who hired him. Officers are now investigating further to identify and apprehend the mastermind behind the smuggling operation.
