18,000 Yaba seized, one held in city
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Thursday evening arrested drug trader from city's Uttara and seized around 18,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from his possession.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team comprising members of Rab-1 and department of Narcotics Control, raided a Chinese restaurant in Uttara and arrested drug trader Abdus Sakur Mahmud, 44, at about 7:00pm.
The law enforcers searched the bag kept on his lap and found around 18,000 pieces of Yaba tablets, which is a combination of methamphetamine (a powerful and addictive stimulant) and caffeine.
This was the second highest number of Yaba recovery by Rab in terms of quantity as earlier the elite force recovered around 1.20 lakh pieces Yaba tablets from city's Gulshan area in 2007 and arrested a manufacturer.
Briefing the reporters at Rab headquarters yesterday morning, Director (Media) Commander Shohail said the arrested man gave important information about Yaba trading.
Drug trader Mahmud confessed that he was involved in Yaba trading for a long time and he used to bring four to five consignments of Yaba tablets in Dhaka from Teknaf every month.
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