DRUG SMUGGLING DEVICE?
National police chief Chakthip Chaijinda said on Monday that it was silly to allow people to carry these dolls aboard airplanes, because criminals could use the dolls to smuggle drugs.
He ordered immigration police at airports and border checkpoints to carefully examine any angel dolls they caught passing through.
Angel doll found with methamphetamine pills in Chiang Mai airport. (Photo by Cheewin Sattha)
A female angel doll stuffed with 200 methamphetamine pills was found left in the parking lot of Chiang Mai International Airport on Monday evening.
Narcotics suppression police searched the area about 6pm yesterday after a tip-off that a quantity of drugs stuffed in a female angel doll would be delivered to a customer there.
Pol Lt Col Kom Chetkhunthod, chief of the Chiang Mai narcotics suppression unit, said a black carrybag containing a doll was found left in a shelter at the airport's parking lot.
A cavity in the doll's chest contained 198 orange and two green methamphetamine pills.
It was the first known case of drugs being smuggled in a doll, amid warnings that angel dolls might soon be used by air passengers to transport drugs.
However, the doll found yesterday allegedly looked more like an ordinary doll than an angel doll.