Song A Tenh, 41, from the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh was caught transporting nearly 15 kg of heroin in Son La province, early on the morning of July 4.
Tenh had hidden the drugs in two boxes and then covered them with peaches.
He said he had bought the heroin from two unidentified H’Mong ethnic people in Moc Chau district of Son La province to sell in other parts of the country.
Earlier, police officers in Moc Chau district of Son La province had seized 82 cakes of heroin and 35,000 pills of synthetic drugs from unidentified smugglers.-VNA
