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.
Eight provinces of Vietnam and Laos attended a conference in Vietnam’s central Thanh Hoa province on October 18 to consolidate their cooperation in fighting drug crime.
The border guard force in the central province of Nghe An said it has caught a suspect who was trafficking 3,000 synthetic drug pills from Laos to Vietnam.
A man carrying 20 bricks of heroin was arrested on June 12 in Chieng Khuong village, Chieng Khuong commune, Song Ma district in the northern mountainous province of Son La.
Police from the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien have arrested three people trafficking 135 bricks of heroin and 500,000 synthetic drug pills.
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.
The border force in the central province of Quang Tri in collaboration with police in the Lao province of Salavan captured two Lao nationals trafficking 40,000 synthetic pills on July 11.
Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Cong Son, deputy head of the General Police Department, has highlighted the complexity of tackling drug crimes in the southern region in recent times.
The Border Guard Command of Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa and the Military Command of Laos’ northern province of Houaphan signed a Memorandum of Understanding on border cooperation.
Vietnam and Thailand convened their ninth bilateral conference on drug
prevention and control cooperation in Hanoi on March 24, resolving to
employ stronger measures to work towards creating a drug-free ASEAN
region.
Vietnamese and Lao law enforcement authorities on December 21 arrested
two drug traffickers in Phonthong district, Lao province of Luang
Prabang in a joint operation.
Police in the northern province of Quang Ninh caught two men in the
act of transporting over 3,000 synthetic pills, more than 700g of
crystal methamphetamine and 34.1g of heroin in the early hours of
September 24.
The People’s Court of central Thanh Hoa province issued death penalty
sentences to two defendants on trial on September 11 for their
involvement in a major drug trafficking case uncovered by local police
last year.
Border guards in the central
province of Thanh Hoa on May 8 said they have uncovered two drug
trafficking cases in areas bordering Laos in recent days.
A worrying rise in drug crime was recorded in 2013 with a growth in the
number of cases, arrested suspects and seized drug hauls, Deputy
Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Le Quy Vuong
reported on January 10.
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