Myanmar Border police seized 570,000 Yaba methamphetamine tablets in Maungdaw Township in western Burma on 5 May 2015 according to a police source quoted in Narinjara. The source also claimed that it was the first big seizure of Yaba tablets on the western Burma border this year.
A squad of police seized the tablets while it was on a patrol along the Myanmar- Bangladesh border area. The police team intercepted a car near Shwe Zar Post primary school and found 570,000 Yaba tablets in two bags. Both the bags were under the driver's seat. Saw Shwe Tun alias Myo Wai Tun, who was driving the vehicle and Micle alias  Micle Tun were detained.
Last month border police seized around 250,000 Yaba tablets from a motor boat moored offshore of the Naff river near to Alay Than Kyaw Village. Ya Ba trafficking from Myanmar into Bangladesh in an ever increasing problem for both Governments and both have vowed to increase cooperation to stamp out the trade.