CHIANG RAI, Thailand, March 2 (UPI) -- Thai authorities said they arrested two suspects after finding more than 4 million methamphetamine pills in a pickup truck abandoned after a chase Friday.
The drugs, officials said, were believed to have been smuggled across the border from Myanmar into Thailand through the Mae Chan district, the Bangkok Post reported.
Col. Surachet Topunyanont, the acting Chiang Rai police chief, said the chase began at a checkpoint when the pickup and two motorcycles did not stop for a search.
Authorities located the pickup and two motorcycles abandoned on a road with no sign of the drivers or any passengers, but arrested two suspects and had warrants for two more.
Inside the pickup truck, authorities said they found 60 bags containing the methamphetamine pills.
In a separate incident in Chiang Rai, police said they arrested three men after finding 200,000 methamphetamine pills in the Mae Sai district Friday, said Col. Thanomsak Yospen, the Mae Sai police chief.
Acting on a tip, police said, officers spotted a white van crossing a bridge from Tachilek and followed it to a hotel.
At the hotel, police said, the driver, Surachet Taluang, 52, and a hotel security guard, Chamras Prompanya, took out of the van two plastic bags containing the 200,0000 pills.
Police said the two men said they were paid $1,960.80 to deliver the pills to Thongdee Sriwichai in Mae Sai.
All three men were arrested.
