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Son La arrests major drug smuggler

Police in the northwestern mountainous province of Son La, in cooperation with customs and border guard forces, have busted a major drug trafficking case, seizing 17 bricks of heroin.
Son La arrests major drug smuggler ảnh 1Vu A Ta, 33, from Dien Bien, is caught red-handed with 17 bricks of heroin on June 15. (Photo: VNA)

Son La (VNA) – Police in the northwestern mountainous province of Son La, in cooperation with customs and borderguard forces, have busted a major drug trafficking case, seizing 17 bricks ofheroin.

Vu A Ta, 33,from Xa Dung commune, Dien Bien Dong district, the neighbouring province ofDien Bien, was caught red-handed with the amount of drug at 4:30pm on June 15when he was in Muong Bamcommune, Thuan Chau district, Son La.

He confessedthat he had gone to ThuanChau to purchase the heroin from another dealer, whose identity remainsunknown, and was on the way to sell it.

The case isunder further investigation./.
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