Aye Myat Khaing, Narinjara News, 7 April 2022

About 15 million WY stimulant pills worth more than kyat 20 billion were seizedat  Pepadon checkpoint in Ann township, located at Sittwe- Yangon highway,yesterday, said Ann Myo Myo police station chief Lt. Col. Myo Kyi.

He also added that the driver and his accomplice of thecarrying vehicle were also arrested.

Accordingto the Ann township police station, the drugs were seized from a six-wheelertruck loaded with barrels on 5 April. A prototype Pro Box car was driven by thesuspected owner, who escaped, and the police are investigating for furtherdetails.

The Pepadon checkpoint is recognized as the primary entry point for allvehicles to get inside the Rakhine State.

Locals insist that the supply of narcotics to Rakhine people, particularly theyoung generation, is harmful and not acceptable to them.

The border towns of Buthidaung and Maungdaw in Rakhine State are often used astransit routes or illegal Yaba pills. These drugs are apprehended to smuggleinto Bangladesh across the Rakhine border and the trend continues to riselately.

(Photo by Rakhine Daily)