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Drugs found under cargo of onions

Packages containing the 5 million meth pills found concealed beneath sacks of onions on a truck at a checkpoint in Chumphon province. The 36-year-old truck driver was arrested. (Photo supplied)

A truck driver was arrested after millions of methamphetamine pills were found hidden among his cargo of onions, at a checkpoint in Tha Sae district of Chumphon province.

Chaichana Thaluang, 36, was taken into custody and the 5 million speed pills underneath the sacks of onions in the back of his six-wheel truck seized, Pol Lt Gen Sarayut Sa-nguanpokhai, chief of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB), said on Wednesday.  

The truck was stopped and searched after the NSB received information that smugglers were using a white six-wheel truck to move drugs from the North to the South. A checkpoint was set up in…

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