KUNMING - Police in southwest China's Yunnan Province, arrested a drug trafficker Monday, local authorities said Wednesday.

Frontier police in the city of Lincang arrested a man driving a vehicle on a highway around 10 a.m. Monday after receiving a report that the man was transporting a batch of drugs from Myanmar to China.

Police seized 35.597 kg of methamphetamine from the vehicle.

Further investigation is underway.