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Bangkok Post
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Suspects use ambulance to smuggle speed pills

A couple, top, abandon their ambulance used for drug smuggling. Two men, who boarded a pickup truck to lead the ambulance, were arrested in Bangkok's Min Buri district on Monday. (Photo supplied)

Police will issue arrest warrants for two more men and a woman suspected of smuggling 2.25 million methamphetamine pills from the Northeast into Bangkok.

Police have arrested two men involved in the drug smuggling. The drugs were found hidden in an ambulance.

The two suspects were arrested at Soi Hathairat 39 in Min Buri district on Monday.

They were in a pickup truck that was leading the ambulance loaded with the speed pills. The pickup truck and the ambulance were abandoned at Soi Hathairat 39.

A couple who owned the ambulance left their vehicle and fled in a rescue pickup truck driven by another gang member.

According to an investigation, the gang had smuggled illicit drugs from the Northeast to the Central Plains several times. They had been hired 150,000 to 300,000 baht for each delivery.

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