Sirinya said that this major bust started when the ONCB Region 5 and police arrested the 43-year-old hill tribesman Panatkit Soponphumpanya. He said the man was wanted for a drugs crime in December 2010 with a Chon Buri arrest warrant. He was arrested in Chiang Mai's Mae Taeng district on Monday along with assets worth Bt10 million, Sirinya said. The investigation then purportedly found that Panatkit was in the middle of a drug deal in which a supplier in neighbouring Myanmar hid a large batch of Golden Triangle "wine1" meth pills and "ice" along the border in Chiang Mai's Chiang Dao district for him to transport to Ayutthaya. ONCB and police would continue to probe the case to arrest the rest of the suspects, he said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok June 15, 2018 08:15 UTC