Ayutthaya: Police intercepted a pickup truck carrying 12 undocumented immigrants crammed into it while attempting to enter the country. Ayutthaya Highway Police successfully apprehended an entire migrant worker trafficking gang while they were transporting 12 undocumented foreigners crammed into a vehicle and attempting to change routes to evade police. According to Thai News Agency, highway police in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya apprehended a gang smuggling illegal migrant workers on Highway 340 in Bang Sai district. Following an investigation into the planned entry of foreign nationals into the country, police observed two pickup trucks with tinted windows driving at high speed and suddenly changing lanes, bypassing the main road and entering Highway 340 (Bang Bua Thong-Suphan Buri road) in Thep Mongkol subdistrict, Bang Sai district. Suspicious, highway police signaled and ordered the vehicles to stop. During the first search, in addition to the driver, Mr. Sanchai, a Myanmar national (with a valid passport) , they also found 12 other Myanmar nationals crammed into the vehicle. Police ordered all of them to get out for questioning and found 5 men and 7 women. Mr. Sanchai, the Myanmar driver, admitted that two days prior (January 21st), he was instructed in a group chat to pick up 12 migrant workers from Lampang and transport them to Ayutthaya for a fee of 13,000 baht per trip. He also stated that a Thai man named Wan would drive ahead and scout the route for the transportation of the migrant workers. When Mr. Wan, the driver of the other pickup truck, was implicated, he immediately admitted that two days prior, Mr. Ling (real name unknown) contacted him, instructing him to escort the vehicles carrying illegal immigrants into the country and to scout the route for checkpoints, for which he would receive 6,000 baht. In addition to Mr. Wan's confession, police also found evidence of a conference call via Line with his team throughout the journey. The foreigners, admitted through an interpreter, to illegally cross from Myanmar via boat through Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, paying brokers 20,000 baht per person. They dreamed of working in Bangkok but were ultimately arrested before they could achieve their goal. In this case, police charged Mr. Wan and Mr. Sanchai, the drivers, with "jointly assisting illegal immigrants," while the laborers were prosecuted for "illegitimate immigration."