Police and local administration officials seized 24 containers stuffed with industrial wastes at a warehouse in Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district and at a rest area beside a highway, also in the same district on Tuesday.
Pol Gen Veerachai Songmetta, the national deputy police chief, who led the two separate raids thanked people in local communities for alerting officials about suspicious materials which might be illegal.
The combined team of police, industrial, health and local administration officials first raided the Rachanon warehouse in Tambon Khao Mai Kaew. They found in ten containers iron scraps reportedly bought by bidding from Klong Toey port.
Veerachai said documents showed the industrial wastes were supposed to be kept at a warehouse in Si Racha district, but they were actually kept at warehouse in Bang Lamung, amounting to false declaration of the place to store the iron scraps.
In their next raid, the officials descended on rest area beside Highway 331 in Tambon Khao Mai Kaew, Bang Lamung district, and found seven trailers carrying 14 containers which were found to contain fine iron scraps.
The drivers of the seven trailers fled the scene when they saw the officials.