Police recently cracked down on a major transnational ring that trafficked heroin from Cambodia to Taiwan (China) through Vietnam, the Ministry of Public Security said on December 5.
The People’s Court of the northern province of Lang Son handed out 11 death penalties and one life sentence to members of a heroin trafficking ring on November 27.
The People’s Court of the northern province of Quang Ninh on November 13 sentenced five drug traffickers to death in a case involving a transnational drug trafficking ring and 148 bricks of heroin.
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.
Police in the northern mountainous province of Son La on June 4 arrested a man when he was illegally transporting 20 bricks of heroin (about seven kilograms) in Co Phay hamlet, Tan Lap commune, Moc Chau district.
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 central province of Nghe An, in collaboration with the Drug Crime Investigation Department under the Ministry of Public Security, on October 26 discovered a group of Lao citizens smuggling drugs into Vietnam.
The People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Binh held a meeting on August 17 to review the implementation of the Ordinance on the Border Guard over the last two decades.
The police of the northern border province of Lao Cai have brought to light the biggest drug trafficking ring, arresting two suspects and seizing 329 bricks (about 120kg) of heroin worth about 69 billion VND (3.03 million USD).
The number of traffic accidents, deaths and injuries on National Highway 1A from December 28, 2017 to February 28, 2018 declined in comparison to the same period last year, said the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security.
Traffic police nationwide stepped up cracking down on traffic rule and law offences from January 16 to February 15 and ensured traffic safety and social order during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday (Tet).
The People’s Court of Hanoi on January 3 sentenced two people to death and six to life imprisonment for smuggling drugs between the northern mountainous province of Son La and Hanoi.
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