At about 10:15 pm on July 20, officers from the Operations Division of the Nghe An Border Guard Command and the Nam Can International Border Gate Border Guard Station, in coordination with customs officers at the Nam Can International Border Gate, caught a resident of Tan Tien hamlet, Chieu Luu commune, Nghe An province, allegedly transporting narcotics in Tien Tieu hamlet, Nam Can commune.
A Thai air hostes swas arrested after a kilogramme of heroin was found hidden in her luggage after she arrived at Melbourne airport on June 25. She was carrying 12 tote bags, and the heroine was in the lining. The amount has a street value of about 500,000 AUD (345,000 USD).
Myanmar police have seized 6.5 kg of heroin in Myanmar’s Kachin state, the country’s Central Committee on Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) announced on August 27.
Cambodian authorities arrested 9,034 drug-related suspects, including 167 foreigners, during the first half of 2023, according to the country’s Anti-Drug Police Department (ADP).
The People’s Court of the northwestern province of Son La handed out 10 death penalties and one life sentence to members of a drug trafficking ring during trials from June 1-5.
The Thai army has tightened security along the northern border following reports of greater quantities and varieties of illegal drugs flowing into the country from Myanmar.
Border guards in the northern province of Lao Cai have coordinated with local police force to arrest three people who were illegally transporting 40 bricks (about 13.6kg) of heroin.
A man was arrested on April 13 in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien for smuggling 30 bricks of heroin weighing 10.5kg, according to the provincial police.
Customs and police officers in Ho Chi Minh City on November 24 found more than 20kg of drugs of various kinds when checking nine express delivery parcels.
Police in the northern border province of Lao Cai said on August 3 that they have broken down a drug trafficking ring, seizing three suspects and 84,800 tablets of meth.
Police of Dien Bien district of the northwestern province of the same name on July 11 said they, together with relevant agencies, had seized a large haul of drugs from a transnational trafficking ring.
The police in the northern province of Dien Bien in collaboration with other forces have raided a drug trafficking ring involving three suspects and 54 bricks of heroin (nearly 19 kg).
Police in the northwestern mountainous province of Son La teamed up with the General Department of Vietnam Customs’ anti-smuggling investigation agency to arrest a man on July 6 for trafficking five bricks of heroin and about 30,000 meth pills.
Three drug cases were recently discovered in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong and the northern province of Nam Dinh, with 1.4kg of heroin and 4,000 synthetic drug pills seized.
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.
