Two peddlers arrested in Cox’s Bazar with 14,000 yaba pills hidden in motorcycle
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Special Response Battalion (SRB)-15 has arrested two drug peddlers with 14,000 yaba pills in a raid in the Link Road area of Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila. A motorcycle used to transport the drugs, cash and two mobile phones were seized at the time.
The arrestees are Md Isa, 20, of the Kachhapia area of Ramu upazila and Md Nurul Absar, 26, of the Jhilongja Larpara area of Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila.
SRB-15 said it received information from a secret source that several drug peddlers were coming towards Cox’s Bazar Sadar from Naikhongchhari with a huge quantity of yaba on a motorcycle. On this basis, a temporary checkpost was set up in the Link Road rail crossing area on the night of 21 September.
When the suspected motorcycle reached the checkpost, it was stopped and searched. Then 14,000 yaba pills were found on the motorcycle, wrapped in scotch tape in a special manner. The two people on the motorcycle were arrested immediately.
Besides the yaba, Tk 6,200 in cash, a motorcycle, an Android mobile phone and a button mobile phone were seized in the raid.
In primary interrogation, the two arrestees said they had long been collecting yaba from border areas and supplying it to various places in the country including Cox’s Bazar. A case has been filed against them under the Narcotics Control Act. The two have been handed over to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Police Station along with the recovered drugs and other evidence.
