Over 500,000 meth pills seized after car chase in Chiang Rai
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Drug mules dumped five bags containing 578,000 methaphetamine pills after being chased by a police car, but managed to speed away in Chiang Rai province’s Mae Sai district on Wednesday morning.
Police manning a road checkpoint on Mae Sai-Chiang Rai Road in Tambon Pong Pha in Mae Sai chased the car after it stopped 150 metres before the checkpoint and reversed in the direction it came from.
When police at the checkpoint went after it, the car turned to a road along an irrigation canal, slowed down and dumped five bags.
The police car stopped to check the bags and found 289 packets, each containing 2,000 meth pills, police said.
