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Tuesday, April 8, 2003

    Drug    

Drug traffickers get jail sentences

Yangon, 7 April— A combined team comprising members of local intelligence unit and Bago anti drug squad on 25 May 2002 searched a parcel at 13-mile Village on Thandaung Township sent from Kyaw Kyaw in Lashio and discovered 97 stimulant tablets bearing WY letters.

On follow-up investigation, No 1 Police Station, Toungoo, arrested Saw Kyaw Naing (a) Kyaw Kyaw, 28, son of U Daw Nae of Daw Uku Ward, Lashio, Saw Al Htoo, 20, son of U Saw Alfred of Loikaw and Salai Lin Aung (a) Pho Kwa, 29, son of U Hla Soe of Naung Ya (A) Ward, Loikaw, and filed them under Section 15/19 (A) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law. Toungoo District Court on 6 March sentenced them to 15 years’ imprisonment each.


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