A DRUG trafficker was sentenced to two years in jail yesterday after being caught with four packages of yama and 56 amphetamine pills. Motodop Mean Sameth, 36, was found at his rented room in the capital’s Chamkarmon district with the drugs in March. He was also fined 4 million riel (around US$1,000) during sentencing at Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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