More than 250 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine were confiscated after being smuggled across the Mekong River to Thailand’s Mukdahan province, police said on Friday.

Two Kanchanaburi men have been arrested for allegedly smuggling 4.46 million methamphetamine pills from the North, the Narcotics Suppression Bureau chief said on Tuesday.

Immigration police in Songkhla on Wednesday arrested an alleged Myanmar human trafficker and rescued 14 smuggled Myanmar people from a rented house in Bang Klam district.

Navy troops seized 200,000 methamphetamine pills smuggled across the Mekong River from Laos to the riverbank in Mukdahan’s Wan Yai district on Monday night.

Soldiers and customs officials stopped 15 vehicles and seized some 5,100 litres of petrol and diesel allegedly being smuggled into Songkhla’s Sadao district on Wednesday morning at the Tha Khoi-Padang Bezar crossing.

Three Thais and two Lao men were arrested on Thursday as members of a gang that smuggled stolen motorcycles from Thailand to sell in Laos.

Army troops seized 480 kilograms of marijuana smuggled across the Mekong River from Laos into Nakhon Phanom’s That Phanom district on Tuesday night. None of the drug runners was arrested.

Police and Excise Department officials have arrested a man in Pattani’s Mayo district and seized 10,802 packets of foreign cigarettes.

A high-speed chase ended in the arrest of a Thai driver carrying 15 smuggled Myanmar migrants crammed in a pickup truck in Songkhla's Bang Klam district early on Wednesday.

A 47-year-old Chinese man was arrested at Chiang Rai's Mae Fah Luang Airport on Wednesday with 1kg of powdered ketamine, which he had allegedly smuggled from the area near Kings Romans Casino in Laos that is part of the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone. He was allegedly intending to fly on to Hanoi with the package.

Mukdahan Wild Animals Checkpoint officials were joined by personnel from other agencies in confiscating 182 baskets containing 2,730 rat snakes and cobras - worth Bt1 million in total - about to be smuggled to Laos.

Army troops on Monday apprehended five Thai men in Songkhla while they were allegedly transporting 1,470 kilograms of kratom leaves smuggled into the country from Malaysia.

Nong Khai customs officials confiscated 40 sacks of unauthorised facial-cream products worth Bt1 million that had allegedly been smuggled by boat across the Mekong River into Thailand on Monday night, customs checkpoint head Sombat Khonthong said on Tuesday.

New Delhi - A passenger who smuggled a month-old leopard cub in hand luggage on a flight from Bangkok to Chennai has been arrested, Indian authorities said Saturday.

A man was arrested on Monday night in Chiang Rai with 4 million methamphetamine pills he is alleged to have smuggled from a border spot.