Authorities nab suspected drug smugglers and seized more than 1,000 kilogrammes of ice
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea Military police in Preah Vihear province yesterday arrested two men suspected of transporting more than 1,000 kilogrammes of methamphetamines (ice) from Laos into Cambodia. Lieutenant Colonel Duong Sarith, the Deputy Commander of Preah Vihear Provincial Military Police, told Khmer Times yesterday that the two suspects, one the driver and owner of the car previously seized by the authorities and the other his worker, were arrested on Monday in Chey Sen district located next to the Cambodia-Laos border. Lt Col Sarith said that they were arrested following an earlier incident when the suspects abandoned the car near a forest and fled into the undergrowth to escape pursuing Military Police who had spotted the suspicious looking vehicle driving along the border at night on January 20. After searching the abandoned car, police found more than one tonne of ice. The suspects are believed to be the ringleaders of a drug gang and had been at large since fleeing th