Anti-drug squad arrest four in Maungtaw

Anti-drug squad arrest four in Maungtaw
The entrance to Maungdaw, Rakhine State. Photo: Mizzima
The entrance to Maungdaw, Rakhine State. Photo: Mizzima

Security personnel have arrested four suspects along with 19,500 stimulant tablets from a boat near Maungni Village, Maungtaw Township on the Naf River on 26 January.

Similarly, an anti-drug squad raided the house of a suspected drug smuggler in Maungni Village, Myoma Kanyintan village-tract in Maungtaw Township.

The force found two suspects in the house and confiscated 1,285,750 stimulant pills from a trawler. The suspects have been charged under the narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law.

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