18,000 yaba pills seized in Shan State

In separate incidents on 10 October, a total of 18,000 yaba pills were confiscated in Shan State.

Anti-Drug Squad Unit No. 24, based in Lashio, confiscated 8,000 yaba tablets in Naunghkoi  on 10 October.The team searched a GI Group passenger bus near the Oriental toll gate at the access to Naungkoi and found 2,200 yaba tablets in the handbag of Ma Sone Phaung, 56.  Another 5,800 yaba tablets worth Ks 11.6 million was found in a plastic basket belonging to Ma Wun Mein Kyu, 28.

Similarly, a combined team comprised of members of Anti-Narcotic Task Force Unit No. 30 based on Tachilek found a man, Ahr Phaung, 18, near the Meisai creek in Makarhokham Ward of Tachilek, Shan State (South) on 10 October and searched him. Police seized 10,000 yaba tablets worth Ks15 million.   

Police have filed charges against the suspects under the psychotropic substances law and Anti narcotic drug laws.—Myanmar Police Force