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No. 5 · Sunday, 5 July 2026

Thai police seize 8 million meth pills hidden under two tons of cucumbers

Transnational Organized CrimeSIGNIFICANT SEIZUREThailandMyanmar
What? A traffic stop after a pickup truck ran a red light and struck a motorcyclist in Kamphaeng Phet province led Thai police to 40 sacks of methamphetamine ("yaba") pills — 200,000 pills per sack, 8 million total — hidden beneath two tons of fresh cucumbers. Police arrested the driver, a 25-year-old Myanmar national who said he had been paid to move the truck from northern Thailand, and are now tracing the shipment's financing to identify the network behind it.
Single-source · Source: Chiang Rai Times (July 3, 2026)

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