Thao Chong Lau at the police office (Source: baothanhhoa.vn) ThanhHoa (VNA) – Border guards of the central province of Thanh Hoa on March 11 caught a man red handed inthe act of trafficking 6 kg of crystal meth from Laos into Vietnam.
Thao Chong Lau (born in 1965 in Keo Te hamlet, Nhi Son commune, Muong Latdistrict, Thanh Hoa province) was arrested in the district’s Trung Ly commune.
The man confessed that he bought the drugs from a Lao man.
Thecase is under further investigation.
Inrecent times, drug trafficking on the western border of Thanh Hoa province hasbeen highly complex. Information sources from locals said that there are someLao and Vietnamese nationals living along the borderline illegally transportingdrugs into Vietnam.
Earlierthis year, police in the centralprovince of Thanh Hoa caught a series of drug trafficking cases in the locality.
On January 19, police in Thanh Hoa province’sQuan Hoa district caught Hoang Ngoc Bang (40 years old, from Muong Ly commune, MuongLat district) selling a packet of heroin and one meth pill in Trung Soncommune.
The same day, Quan Hoa police also arrested ViVan Dong (36 years old, from Ta Ban hamlet, Trung Son commune) for drugtrafficking and storage. They found 4,200 meth pills, a brick of heroin, 1 kgof crystal meth, and homemade weapons in his house.
Earlier the same month, Thanh Hoaprovince’s police also seized two men attempting to smuggle 17,133 meth pillsand 2 kg of methamphetamine. –VNA
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