{"id":9177,"date":"2025-01-23T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:08:29","slug":"myanmars-authorities-have-seized-over-300000-stimulant-tablets-and-20-kg-of-ice-in-yangon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=9177","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar&#8217;s authorities have seized over 300,000 stimulant tablets and 20 kg of Ice in Yangon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>21 January 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 kg of Ice (methamphetamine) and 366,000 stimulant tablets have been seized by Myanmar&#8217;s authorities in Yangon region, the state-run daily The Mirror reported on Tuesday, citing police sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched three people in Hlaing township and confiscated 20 kg of methamphetamine on January 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 16, 366,000 stimulant tablets were seized from two suspects in Hlegu township. On Jan. 17, the owner of the stimulant tablets was apprehended in Zabuthiri township in Nay Pyi Taw, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is estimated that the seized narcotics were worth approximately 866 million kyats (about 412,380 USD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legal action has been initiated against the offenders, and further investigations are ongoing to arrest other suspects involved in the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#narcotics #drugs #mtnews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"345\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/photo_2025-01-21_17-14-50-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9178\" style=\"width:740px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/photo_2025-01-21_17-14-50-2.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/photo_2025-01-21_17-14-50-2-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 January 2025 20 kg of Ice (methamphetamine) and 366,000 stimulant tablets have been seized by Myanmar&#8217;s authorities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9180,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions\/9180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}