The police in Muong Nhe district, the northern border province of Dien Bien, in coordination with the local border guards and customs force have arrested a drug trafficker and 10 bricks (3.4kgs) of heroin.
Border guard forces in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on December 8 caught red-handed a man illegally transporting heroin in Nam Ke commune of Muong Nhe district.
The police of the northern mountainous province of Son La have arrested a suspect who was illegally transporting four bricks of heroin and 2,000 synthetic pills in Na Ot village, Na Ot commune, Mai Son district.
Police of the northern province of Bac Ninh have coordinated with provincial authorities to arrest two men illegally transporting 15 cakes (5kg) of heroin.
The People’s Court of the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh on July 20 sentenced a man to death and gave two others a life sentence on charges of trafficking and transporting 30 bricks of heroin.
A Vietnamese-Australian woman who tried to smuggle nearly five kilogrammes of heroin through Tan Son Nhat International Airport was arrested on July 24.