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Thanh Hoa: man arrested for trafficking 10 kg of crystal meth

Police in the central province of Thanh Hoa caught red handed a man trafficking ten kilogrammes of crystal meth from Laos to Vietnam.
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Thanh Hoa (VNA) – Police in the centralprovince of Thanh Hoa caught red handed a man trafficking ten kilogrammes ofcrystal meth from Laos to Vietnam.

Loc Van Duong, born in 1972 in Son Dien commune, Quan Son district, Thanh Hoaprovince, was arrested in the district’s Son Lu commune on February 10.

The man confessed that he was hired by a Laotian to transport the drug fromLaos to Vietnam for 200 million VND (8,600 USD).

On January 19, police of Thanh Hoaprovince’s Quan Hoa district caught 40-year-old Hoang Ngoc Bang from Muong Lycommune, Muong Lat district selling a packet of heroin and a meth pill in TrungSon commune.

Searching the man’s house, they seized 10plastic bags containing 2,020 meth pills.

The same day, Quan Hoa police also arrested36-year-old Vi Van Dong from Ta Ban hamlet, Trung Son commune, for drugtrafficking and storage. 

They found 4,200 meth pills, a brick of heroin,1 kg of crystal meth, a homemade gun and knives, swords and other tools in hishouse. 

Earlier this month, Thanh Hoa province’spolice seized two men attempting to smuggle 17,133 meth pills and 2 kg ofmethamphetamine.-VNA


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