Drug traffickers arrested in HCM City, Dien Bien
Ho Chi Minh City police said on March 20 that they had cracked down on a drug trafficking ring, seizing 50 bricks of heroin and 35kg of synthetic drug.
HCM City police crack down on a drug trafficking ring, seizing 50 bricks of heroin and 35kg of synthetic drug (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City police said on March 20 that they had cracked down on a drug trafficking ring, seizing 50 bricks of heroin and 35kg of synthetic drug.
After an investigation period, the police on February 25 caught red-handed two persons trading two bricks of heroin. From the two, they urgently arrested Nguyen Hoang Danh, born in 1997 and residing in Tan Binh district, and Dang Xuan Hai, born in 1960 and residing in Tan Binh district, seizing 30 heroin bricks, two bags of crystal meth, and three bags of synthetic drug pills.
Through further investigation, the police arrested four others, and seized 18 bricks of heroin, and three bags containing a large number of synthetic drug pills.
In the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, the provincial border guard force in on March 20 caught Sung A Phong, born in 1968 and residing in Dien Bien Dong district, when he was transporting 600 synthetic drug pills and 2 grams of heroin in an area near the Vietnam-Laos border./.
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