A pick-up truck driver was arrested in Surat Thani after he sped through a checkpoint, with an estimated 1,000 bottles of foreign liquor.
Thattapol Silapa-rojphanit, 41, from Songkhla, was arrested at 7am after he sped past a checkpoint in Wieng Sra district.
Police at the checkpoint radioed their counterparts a checkpoint in Ban Na San district to make the arrest.
Thattapol said he was given Bt7,000 to drive the cargo from Songkhla’s Hat Yai district to Bangkok.