Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 170,000 pieces of Burmese Yaba, with a street value of Tk 5.1 crore, in separate drives at Ukhiya Upazila in Cox’s Bazar, said a media release on Friday. The illegal drug was being smuggled to Bangladesh from Myanmar through Lal Boro pahar area on Thursday night, added the release. Read: ASP Anisul's death: Murder charges filed against 15 people Tipped off, a patrol team of BGB-34 under Rejupara BOP, conducted a drive in the area around 9pm and challenged some people. Sensing the presence of the law enforcers, the suspected smugglers abandoned a bag and fled into the deep jungle. Later, the patrol team recovered 150,000 Yaba pills worth from the bag they left at the spot. Read: Actor Sohel Chowdhury murder: Court to record statements from March 20 Meanwhile, another special patrol team of Palong Khali BOP, conducted a drive around 3am in the East Farirbil area and recovered 20,000 abandoned yaba pills worth Tk 60 lakh, said the release. Legal steps will be taken in this regard, added the release.

Four men were arrested after police recovered over 1.7 million pieces of yaba tablets and Tk 1.71 crore in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday.

A sub-inspector (SI) and constable of Sitakunda Police Station were suspended on Thursday for “possessing seized yaba and letting an arrested drug peddler go.”

Police arrested three people with 146,000 Yaba pills from Kalabibi area of Anowara upazila in Chattogram on Thursday.

Bangladesh Coast Guard on Wednesday recovered 16,800 pieces of yaba pills from a pickup van in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf. 

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two Rohingyas carrying 1.3 million 13 lakh Yaba pills worth from a boat in the coastal area of the Bay of Bengal in Cox’s Bazar district early Monday.

Police on Saturday arrested a ‘top drug peddler’ of Sylhet, that too with over a thousand pills in his possession, that they recovered.  

A man and his son were detained with 2,850 pieces of yaba pills worth about Tk 8,55,000 from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Monday.