Police arrested a 47 year old woman from Chiang Rai with 9,400 methamphetamine tablets in her bag on the bus from Chiang Mai to Bangkok on February 23, 2015.
Lamphun Police had set up a checkpoint and signaled the bus to pull over. Upon boarding the bus they found Nalipo Sermue acting suspiciously. They searched her belongings and found 47 bags containing a total of 9,400 Yaba pills.
The suspect confessed to police that she had been paid 20,000 baht to carry the drugs to Mo Chit Bus Terminal in Bangkok. The street value of the drugs if sold in Bangkok was over 2 million baht.