Quang Tri(VNA) - The border guard force of central Quang Tri province on August 28 arrested a Lao man carrying 65.800 methamphetaminepills from Laos to Vietnam.
The arrested man was Liep Latsavong,19, residing in the Lao province of Savannakhet. He was caught red-handed whiletransporting the pills, which were contained in 329 bags.
Based on the man’s testimony,the border force station at the Lao Bao international border gate and the drugand crime prevention team of the provincial border guard arrested Tran KhacHoang, 27, in Bac Giang province and Nguyen Anh Quynh, 19, in Tuyen Quangprovince, who hired Liep Latsavong to transfer the drugs to Vietnam.
One day earlier, theborder guard force in the central province of Nghe An also caught a suspect who was trafficking alarge volume of crystal meth from Laos to Vietnam.
Accordingly, the force’s unit at Nam Can international bordergate, in collaboration with the provincial Customs Department, arrested PhanTuan Anh when he was illegally transporting Ketamine 10-percent INJ cross theborder.
Anh, born in 1992 and residing in NgheAn’s Yen Thanh district, was found hiding 285 phials of Ketamine 10-percent INJ in his luggage while passing the bordergate.
Thirty-six out of 285 phials of Ketamine were detected inAnh’s handbag and the remaining ones were found in the luggage compartment of apassenger car with Lao registration number UN 0279, which was enteringimmigration procedures in the border gate.
Anh admitted that he transported the drugs into Vietnam tosell to a Vietnamese person.
Both cases are under further investigations.-VNA
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