Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) detained a man with 1,790 pieces of yaba from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday afternoon.
The detainee was identified as Mannan Hossain , 39 , son of late Nurul Alam of Cox's Bazar ‘s Teknaf upazila.
Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) Additional Superintendent of Police, Mohammad Ziaul Haque said, Mannan landed in Dhaka from Cox's Bazar this afternoon on a US-Bangla flight.
Armed police stopped him due to his suspicious movement. He was brought to the APBn office for questioning.
During the interrogation, he admitted that he was carrying the Yaba.
Later, they recovered 1,790 pieces of Yaba from inside the rectum of the detainee, added the official.
On July 11, 2023, the armed police detained the same person (Mannan) with yaba at the airport and filed a case with the airport police. But he came out on bail and was once again involved in drug trafficking and was arrested again today.
A case was filed against him at airport police station.