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
