Drug barons offer pills for off-ro

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Subject: Drug barons offer pills for  off-roaders 

                                    July 7, 1999 

                 NARCOTICS

 Drug barons
 offer pills for
 off-roaders

 Wassayos Ngarmkham

 Red Wa rebels have offered their clients in Thailand
 5.7 million methamphetamine pills in exchange for 40
 off-road vehicles, according to the chief of the police
 anti-car theft centre.

 In an order placed by the Red Wa, who are active in the
 production of the drug, the Toyota Tiger is specified as
 the off-roader of choice, said Pol Maj-Gen Pittaya
 Charoenpanit.

 Details of the order were reported by Pol Lt-Gen Aram
 Chanpen, chief of Region 5, in a classified letter to Pol
 Gen Pracha Promnok, the national police chief.

 According to the report, the Red Wa have produced 5.7
 million pills destined for drug rings but instead of
 taking cash, they want 40 off-roaders in showroom
 condition.

 The drugs, it said, are to be smuggled in through Mae
 Hong Son, Chiang Rai or Chiang Mai.

 Pol Gen Pracha has ordered the Metropolitan Police to
 step up operations against car theft, with stringent
 examinations of registration seals and insurance
 certificate at checkpoints.

 City police are to co-ordinate with highways police and
 regional police in setting up more checkpoints.

 From January to June, 607 vehicles were reported
 stolen, down from 804 in the corresponding period of
 last year.

 Chiang Rai police reported nine cases this year, and
 only one of the stolen vehicles was recovered.
                                              


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