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Myanmar Reports Major Drug Bust Near Thai Border
World  (tags: government, Myanmar, police, drugs seized, crime )

Dee
- 92 days ago - news.yahoo.com
YANGON, Myanmar - Police in Myanmar seized more than 100 blocks of heroin and nearly 3 million methamphetamine tablets near the border with Thailand in one of the military-ruled country's largest drug seizures, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday.
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Dee C. (504)
Wednesday August 26, 2009, 2:24 am
"An anti-drug squad confiscated two guns and ammunition and arrested four people in the raid Monday on two houses in the northeastern town of Tachileik, the Myanma Ahlin newspaper said.

Police seized 104 heroin blocks, including two that weighed 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms), the newspaper said. It did not give the weight of the remaining 102 blocks.

The seizure also included 2,926,000 methamphetamine pills and 46 pounds (21 kilograms) of powdered heroin, it said."

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Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (251)
Wednesday August 26, 2009, 5:48 am
So glad that these were caught before they could be used...
 

Michelle M. (83)
Wednesday August 26, 2009, 7:44 am
Thank you Dee. Sometimes I think each bust is a scratch on the surface of the iceberg, but scratches do hurt!
 
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