Police nab suspected drug trafficker at Yangon airport

Police have arrested a man who was allegedly trying to smuggle weed, pills and crystal meth on board a Myanmar National Airways flight from Yangon to Heho yesterday.

Win Aung, 32, was busted in the departure lounge, according to 7Day.

An officer from Mingaladon police station told the paper that the suspect was carrying four grams of marijuana, 130 amphetamine pills and one gram of crystal meth.

He was en route to Heho, in Shan state.

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