Police in a drive arrested a man and recovered 148,000 pieces of yaba pills from a fishing trawler at Old Kalurghat area in Chandgaon of Chattogram city today.

The arrestee was identified as Sohel Uddin of Satkania upazila.

A team of police conducted a drive at Kalurghat area in Karnaphuli River and arrested Sohel along with the yaba pills in the morning after being tipped-off, said Officer-in-Charge of Chandgaon Police Station Ataur Rahman Khandaker.

Police are currently interrogating Sohel, he said.