Thailand Drug Bust Largest In Years

BANGKOK — Police have seized 3.8 million methamphetamine tablets in Thailand's largest drug bust in years.

The haul was estimated as worth more than one billion baht ($31.7 million).

Police Maj. Gen. Comronwit Toopgrajank said the pills and 71 kilograms (156 pounds) of crystal meth were found hidden in an empty house in Bangkok's northern outskirts.

Police raided the house Saturday after tracking down a driver who abandoned his vehicle after a car chase.

Thailand is a leading market and transit point for methamphetamine, much of which is produced in neighboring Myanmar.

Comments

[Mickey Bitsko]

01:20 PM on 01/22/2012

Much of the blame for meth introductions into Thailand has originated by the Wa tribes of Burma as the 'yaba' labs are much easier to conceal than the popular opium fields. Wa peoples are ethnic from the Sino-Burmese borders.

Alot of the meth makes it's way to the US and Europe so the majority is export rather than local consumption in Thailand.

[MagCA68]

01:51 PM on 01/21/2012

I had no idea this scourge was covering the planet now.

[mahnistanah]

02:30 AM on 01/22/2012

It was invented in Japan.