Narcotics suppression police on Saturday night arrested five people and seized one million methamphetamine pills at a checkpoint in Lampang province.

One of the suspects, Sompote Khieocha-oum, 31, of Chiang Rai's Mae Suay district, was arrested when a pick-up he was driving from Ban Mu Mong Phai in Chiang Mai's Fang district was stopped for a search at the checkpoint on Lampang-Tak road in Lampang's Muang district at 8.50pm.

One million speed pills were found hidden in the vehicle.

After questioning Sompote, police arrested four other suspects in Chiang Mai.

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