13 July 2001 :
Kittisak Wongchan and brother-in-law Danai Wongrian were sentenced to death by the Chiang Rai provincial court for possessing approximately one million methamphetamine pills and 20 kilogrammes of heroin. Kittisak was arrested in Mae Lao district on Oct 21, 1997, when police searching his van found some one million speed pills and 20kg of heroin hidden under the floor of the vehicle. Danai became a suspect when he paged Kittisak from Bangkok at the time of the arrest.(Sources: Bangok Post, 14/07/2001)
