THAILAND - The jig is up! Another attempt at disguising illicit substances as our precious produce has been thwarted after police busted three suspects allegedly trafficking almost 15 million methamphetamine pills in fruit boxes throughout Thailand.

But the drug bustin’ tale doesn’t end there. According to a report by The Nation, Thai police began investigating this case back in July after a tip rolled in. The tip incriminated a drug gang based in the North of transporting and distributing more than just produce in trailer trucks around the country. Following the lead, investigators staked out a warehouse in Chiang Rai’s Thoeng district, catching the trailer truck being emptied of its fruit-filled boxes and loaded up with 1.5 billion THB ($45 million USD) worth of drugs.

Two days after the stake-out, police caught the three suspects, who later confessed to transporting narcotics. The suspects have since been charged with possessing drugs with the intent to sell.

The Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) Chief Lt-General Sommai Kongvisaisuk revealed that the gang had effectively evaded officers’ process of opening up and searching trailer trucks’ boxes because they had used a seal bearing the Customs Department’s logo. Tricky, tricky.

The Nation also reports that the Chief Lt-General believes the drugs are linked to a drug trafficking gang known to haul loads of over 10 million meth pills per trip around Thailand and Laos—a gang that could allegedly even be connected to a notorious drug trafficker, who had reportedly faked his own death two decades ago and underwent plastic surgery to avoid arrest. There appears to be no limit drug traffickers will go to keep misusing our fresh fruit and veg for their own devices.

Stay tuned to AndNowUKnow for more produce busts, heists, and shenanigans.