Too hot to handle: Thai drug mule intercepted at Phuket airport

A woman was arrested at Phuket’s airport with THB7 million in methamphetamine hidden in her black suitcase yesterday.

Pornpat Wattanachaisaen, 37, was arrested at Phuket International Airport after an inspection found two kilograms of ice in the handles of her suitcase, according to Paisarn Chuenjitof the Customs Department’s Investigative Division.

Custom officials had earlier received a tip that a Thai woman would attempt to smuggle drugs through the airport from Guangzhou, China.

Pornpan confessed that she was hired to deliver the drugs to a customer in Bangkok. She entered Thailand through Phuket, she said, to avoid the strict customs at Suvarnabhumi Airport, Spring News reported.



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