Yaba pills

2,280 yaba pills recovered from man’s stomach

Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) detains one person with 2,280 yaba pills hidden inside his stomach at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
HC wants fresh charge sheet in yaba recovery case

High Court (HC) has termed a charge sheet as “defective” in a case filed over recovery of 49,000 yaba tablets in Narayanganj last year.
7 lakh yaba pills seized from boat

Coast Guards members yesterday recovered seven lakh pieces of contraband yaba pills from a boat in the Naf River of Teknaf early yesterday.
Drug peddlers held with yaba inside shoes

Three including two women have been arrested in Mymensingh city who were carrying yaba tablets inside their shoes.
Man held with 920 yaba tablets at Dhaka airport

A man has been arrested with yaba tablets at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) has said.
Stashed in stomach

Forensic surgeons at Dhaka Medical College morgue found 11 packets of yaba pills while conducting autopsy on a body yesterday morning.
CID constable held with 990 yaba pills

A constable of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and one of his associates were held with 990 yaba pills from Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, on Thursday evening.
46,000 yaba pills found in gas cylinders

Detectives on Friday night arrested two persons on charge of transporting around 46,000 yaba pills hidden inside gas cylinders.
Yaba Trade in Teknaf: Surrender has little impact

The surrender of 102 drug lords on February 16 now seems merely an eyewash as the yaba empire in Teknaf remains mostly intact with some of their family members and paid agents taking care of the illegal trade.
The rise of the rogues

From political leaders to businessmen, fish traders to poultry farm owners and brickfield workers to tailors -- the professions of 102 yaba godfathers and dealers who surrendered to police on February 16 are as varied as their age.
Crazy pills spill via new routes

A new strategy of yaba smuggling, involving fresh routes and hundi traders, has been at work since the surrender of 102 godfathers and dealers in Cox's Bazar in February.
Choppers may be used to smuggle yaba

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has asked private helicopter operators “to be more cautious” after receiving information that choppers were being used for smuggling yaba pills.
3 held with 8.45 lakh yaba pills

The Rapid Action Battalion-1 yesterday claimed to have arrested three members of a yaba smuggling syndicate which brought the crazy drugs to Dhaka from Myanmar using a new sea route via Patuakhali for the last one year.
4.55 lakh yaba pills recovered in Teknaf

Bangladesh Coast Guard claims to have recovered 4.55 lakh pieces of contraband yaba pills in Teknaf upazila.
Novel trick, indeed!

Amid ongoing drives against yaba, drug peddlers are coming up with new techniques to carry the crazy pills.
BGB seizes 1.20 lakh yaba pills

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday seized around 1.20 lakh yaba pills from Alir Dail area in Teknaf upazila early in the morning, just a couple of days after controversial former lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi's “strong warning” against yaba traders.
Bus helper held with 3,800 yaba pills

Detectives arrest a bus helper along with 3,800 pieces of contraband yaba pills at Firingi Bazar area of Chattogram city.
BGB recovers Tk 27cr yaba from Teknaf

Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday recovered nine lakh yaba tablets, worth about Tk 27 crore, in two separate raids in Teknaf upazila.
31 held in Uttara anti-narcotics drive

At least 31 people are detained in an anti-narcotics drive in Dhaka’s Uttara area.
14 lakh yaba pills seized

Law enforcers, in separate drives, seized 14.40 lakh yaba pills worth about Tk 71 crore and arrested four from Cox's Bazar and Comilla in connection with the seizures.
ASI busted with 50k yaba pills in Narayanganj

Detectives arrested an assistant sub-inspector of Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station in possession of 50,000 yaba tablets yesterday, police said.
Sniffed out by the dogs

Around 9:30pm last Saturday, a police team stopped a motorbike in the capital's Palashi Residential Area. Alleged yaba dealers they had arrested earlier told them that a bike, registered in Chittagong, would have yaba pills stashed inside.
3 lakh yaba pills recovered

Bangladesh Coast Guard has detained six Myanmar nationals on a fishing boat in the deep sea at Saint Martin's Island, and recovered three lakh yaba tablets from them in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday.
Yaba Trade in Ctg: Covered vans used for cover

A section of smugglers are allegedly operating transport agencies in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar to move drugs under cover, say insiders and investigators.
Police recover 4,500 yaba pills from pvt car

Police recovered 4,500 yaba tablets from a private car on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Chittagong's Lohagara upazila yesterday.
7.3 lakh yaba tablets seized

Rab seized 7.3 lakh yaba tablets and arrested seven people, including a Myanmarese, in this connection from Cox's Bazar Sadar upazila early yesterday.
Biggest ever yaba haul

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested three drugs smugglers with the biggest ever haul of yaba pills in separate drives in Chittagong and Dhaka since Saturday.
2 held with 70,000 yaba pills in Dhaka

Detectives arrest two people along with 70,000 contraband yaba tablets from Khilgaon area in the capital Dhaka.
JCD chief shifted to Dhaka jail

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal President Rajib Ahsan is shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from Patuakhali.
Big yaba haul in Dhaka, 1 held

Law enforcers claim seizure of 76,000 contraband yaba tablets and detained one person in this connection from Rankin Street in capital’s Wari.