Magnets to smuggle yaba!
The detective branch (DB) of police seized a consignment of 50,000 yaba pills at the capital’s Baridhara area on Tuesday night, in small packets attached to out-of-view parts of a truck’s body with powerful magnets.
Two alleged drug traders who were in the truck – Khairul Bashar (36) and Saizuddin (22) – were arrested and the vehicle was seized.
Drugs smugglers are always finding innovative ways to carry the “crazy pills”. They sometimes swallow small packs of pills, conceal them in fruits, fuel tanks or even mobile phones to dodge law enforcers. But this method is a new one, detectives said.
Tipped off that a gang of yaba traders are heading towards Kuril through Pragati Sarani with a consignment of pills, a team of DB (north) intercepted the truck around 11:20pm.
After a thorough search, DB members found 13 packets of yaba pills at different areas of the vehicle.
“The drug traders put powerful magnets in each packet to keep them attached to the truck’s body,” Deputy Commissioner (north) of DB Mashiur Rahman told The Daily Star yesterday.
The seized pills are coloured light orange and is of high quality, each pill going for around Tk 300, he added.
Mashiur said the traders have been collecting yaba pills from Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf, the gateway for smuggling the drug into Bangladesh, and supplied them to the capital and other parts of the country.
He said the arrestees admitted that they collected the pills months back and planned to sell them ahead or during new year celebration.
After the seizure, a case was filed under the narcotics act with Gulshan Police Station.
The arrestees were produced before a Dhaka court yesterday with 10-day remand prayer for each. The court granted two-day remand for each of them.
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