Drug trafficker gets life sentence

15 Sept – A combined team comprising members of local intelligence unit and

Taunggyi Special Anti-drug Squad and officials of the Bureau of Special

Investigation and the Customs Department, searched a taxi, going from Hopong to

Taunggyi at the entrance to Taunggyi on 19 August 2002, and found 6.6 kilos of

heroin in the box of Tin Thein (a) Chi Chein who was in the car. No 1 Police

Station in Taunggyi filed Tin Thein (a) Chi Chein, son of U Lauk Kyaung, of Ban

Yin Myo in Hsihseng Township, under sections 15/19(A) of the Narcotic Drugs and

Psychotropic Substances Law. Taunggyi District Court handed down a life sentence

on the drug trafficker under Section 19 (A) on 24 June 2003.

14 Sept – Policemen of the Pyu Police Station, Pyu Township, Bago Division,

acting on information, on 24 June evening, searched the house of Maung Ko at

Pyinmabin village, Zeyawady, Pyu Township and seized him with 0.8164 kilos of

action was taken against Maung Ko, son of U Dawoyet of Pyinmabin village,

Zeyawady, Pyu Township under Section 15/19(a) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic

11 Sept – Yangon District (North) Court on 6 July handed down Kyaw Htay (a) Chit

Te, a drug trafficker, to five years imprisonment under Section 15 and 25 years

members of Yangon and Bago special anti-drug squads and Hlinethaya Police

Station, acting on a tip-off, on 23 April 2002 searched his dwelling of No

1092/A, Bandoola Road, 15-Ward in Hlinethaya Township and seized 1.632 kilos of

action was being taken against him under Section 15/19 (A) of Narcotic Drug and

6 Sept – A combined team comprising members of Local Battalion Unit searched

suspects U Kyi and Ma Thet near Nyaungbintha village in Htantabin Township on 18

January, 2003 and seized them with 4.879 kilos of marijuana. In connection with

the case, action was taken against U Kyi, son of U Thein of Nyaungbintha village

in Htantabin Township and Ma Thet, daughter of U Aung at the same village under

Section of 15/19(a)/21 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law by Mon

handed down four years’ imprisonment under Section 15 and 15 years’ imprisonment

5 Sept – Marijuana weighing 71.970 grams were seized when a combined team

comprising members of the local intelligence unit and the Yangon Division

Anti-crime Squad searched a suspect, Thein Htwe (a) Phyu Tok on Ayawun street

near Uyin market at Ward 10 in Thakayta township on 10 February 2003. The

Thakayta No 2 Police Station filed a lawsuit against Thein Htwe, son of U Htwe,

Thayasu village, Maubin, Ayeyawady Division, under Sections 15/19(a) of Narcotic

to the deputy district judge’s court of Yangon East District. On 24 March, the

court sentenced the drug pusher to 20 years’ imprisonment under Section 19 (a)

3 Sept – A combined team comprising members of local intelligence unit and Bhamo

Special Anti-drug Squad, searched a Hilux car with number plates Dha/3545, which

was going from Laiza to Myitkyina on 10 March, 2003 and found deputy 0.244 kilo

of heroin in the wicker basket of Ma Dwebu. It is learnt that the owner is Ma

Dwebu, daughter of U Gaw Lo Yan of Myaymyint Ward in Myitkyina, and Ma Marbon,

daughter of U Jan Maw Mon, Ward 4 in Konlok Village, Momauk Township, under

10 years’ imprisonment with labour each on the two drug traffickers under