Police have spelled out
“ya ba” with the 1,025 pills they allegedly seized from two Laotian
women.
Teerarak Suthathiwong
Banglamung officials arrested two Laotian women who allegedly
transported bags full of methamphetamine pills over the border to
Pattaya.
Officers from the Banglamung Command Centre for Drugs Elimination
apprehended Monta Wongpoothong, 29, and Nang Chaiyabut, 38, in a sting
operation at the Noppakao Hotel, located next to the Pattaya bus
station, shortly after they arrived on a bus from Mukdahan.
In their shoulder bags, the women allegedly were carrying 1,025 ya ba
tablets which they had arranged to sell for 110,000 baht. What they
didn’t know was the buyer was an undercover Banglamung security officer.
The women, from Savannakhet Province in Laos, confessed they worked for
a big Laotian meth dealer who regularly had them take the
Mukdahan-Pattaya bus to bring drugs to the city, police said.
