By The Nation
Published on June 2, 2011
Two brothers were sentenced to life in jail yesterday for running nearly half a million ya ba pills for a dealer last year. Sakchai and Thongsuk Luengsrithong were initially sentenced to death, but the penalty was commuted due to their confessions.
Police are hunting for Thidawan Jimek, the wife of Surasit Khamtai, who is serving time in Ratchaburi over drugdealing charges.
It is alleged that Thidawan was behind the 400,000 tablets worth Bt80 million being put up for trade, before the brothers were arrested in a sting operation on January 25 last year.
In Chiang Rai yesterday, a military task force found a haul of illicit drugs worth about Bt150 million after intercepting a team of six couriers from Burma. The six unarmed men dropped their cargo and ran back across the border.
The packs contained 25 kilograms of "ice" flakes and 900,000 amphetamine tablets.
Source: The Nation
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