Shwebo, 29
A ring of drugs dealers consists of four people was arrested in the town of Shwebo, Shwebo district, sagaing region yesterday afternoon, according to a local police station.
Acting on information received, the local policemen and ward administrators searched the house of Naing Naing Tun (a) Ko Ko Naing, 20. The authorities seized 11 bottles of heroin, each bottle containing 0.1 g, in a backpack in the house.
According to the information screwed out of him, the authorities continued to search the house of Myo Min Nyein (a) Po Tharlay, 29. They found two men named Soe Tint, 53 and Hein Htet, 28 together with Myo Min Nyein in the house.
After a thorough search, the authorities seized one bottle of heroin in Myo Min Nyein’s pocket, seven bottles of heroin and K 2.3 million earned from selling heroin inside the house. The total weight of the seized heroin was 1.3 gram.
The authorities pressed drugs charges against the four at Shwebo Myoma Police Station.— Chit San ( Khin-U)
Translated by Khine Thaw
