Raw opium seized in Hopong

Yangon, 20 June

, A combined team comprising members of the local intelligence unit, Taunggyi Special Antic-Drugs quad and the local police force, acting on information, inspected the white Hilux car with the number plates Bahtetchaik/ 7496 driven by Tint Lwin Oo at the crop-tax tollgate in Hopong on 4 June afternoon and seized 82 packages of raw opium weighing 120.54 kilos inside 9 wall-paint containers on the roof of the car.
Action is being taken against Tint Lwin Oo, 27, son of U Tin Tun of No 11/19 Natsin Street, Panglong Township, under section 15/19 (A) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law by Hopong

Police Station.