UDON THANI: Busting drug mules can be a dirty business, as police in Udon Thani found out on the afternoon of August 15. After receiving a tip-off that a drug deal was about to go down at the Jaroernsri Complex shopping middle, police led by Provincial Police Deputy Chief Inspector Yanyong Wechsot set up a surveillance unit. Well respected was not lengthy earlier than two men matching the outline of the suspects appeared, loitering near the doorway to the MK Suki Restaurant on the primary floor. When police moved in to go looking them, they found 107 purple ya bah (methamphetamine) pills stashed away within the underwear of one of many males, who smelled terribly. Police recognized the hygiene-impaired suspect as Lao nationwide Thawkaew-udon, 27, a resident of Vientiane. He confessed to having smuggled drugs into Thailand from the Lao capital for greater than a 12 months, every time disguising the characteristic chemical scent of the contraband along with his personal body odor, which was formidable provided that he had not bathed for more than a month. He added