Police in the central province of Ha Tinh, on October 25, said they have captured two men for trafficking 30 heroin bricks and 6,000 methamphetamine pills.
The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on October 7 sentenced eight defendants to death and another to life imprisonment for trafficking 379 heroin bricks weighing over 132kg and 55kg of methamphetamine.
Police of Dien Bien Dong district in the northern border province of Dien Bien on August 4 arrested two men who were illegally transporting six bricks of heroin (about 2.1 kg).
The police of the northwestern province of Hoa Binh, in collaboration with other anti-drug forces from the Ministry of Public Security and the Vietnam Coast Guard High Command, seized 100 heroin bricks from a car during their patrol on National Highway 6 on July 19.
Competent forces have arrested a 34-year-old man for illegally transporting ten bricks of heroin in the northern province of Ha Nam, local police said on May 24.
Police in collaboration with border guard and customs forces in the northern border province of Son La on April 20 caught a suspect red handed trafficking 17 heroin bricks, weighing about 6kg.
Police in the northern border province of Son La on October 31 caught red-handed two man smuggling drugs in Cuong Muong hamlet, Muong Chum commune, Muong La district.
Border guards in the northern mountainous province of Son La and police in Moc Chau and Van Ho districts on October arrested a local man who was smuggling 10 bricks of heroin.
The Anti-drug Investigation Police Department has coordinated with the customs and border guard forces, as well as the police in Ho Chi Minh City to raid a large drug ring trafficking drugs from Laos to Vietnam, seizing over 60kgs of heroin.
Police of the northwestern province of Son La arrested on July 22 three persons involved in a cross-border drug trafficking ring, seizing 28 bricks of heroin.
The People’s Court of northern Phu Tho province on June 15 sentenced three men to death and another to life in jail for trafficking 300 heroin bricks in the province’s largest-ever narcotics case in terms of drug quantity.
Police have busted a big drug trafficking ring and seized 15 heroin bricks (one brick being equivalent to about 350 grams), police in Nam Dinh province said on June 23.