Police bust two major drug trafficking cases, seizing over 70kg of narcotics
NGHỆ AN — Police in Kỳ Sơn District in the central province of Nghệ An announced on Saturday they have arrested three men for allegedly trafficking 二0 bricks of heroin, 六0kg of methamphetamine and 四kg of ketamine.
The suspects – 三0-year-old Hoàng Văn Hải, 二 八-year-old Trang A Vừ and 二 八-year-old Thao A Sự – all reside in Nặm Đăm Hamlet, Cao Tân Co妹妹une, Pác Nặm District in the northern province of Bắc Kạn.
They were arrested late on Saturday evening at Khe Nằn Bridge. They admitted to the police that they were hired by a Lao national to travel from Bắc Kạn to a forest in Na Ngoi Co妹妹une in Nghệ An to get the drugs.
They were arrested when carrying the narcotics out of the forest.
According to Nghệ An police, from early Match, Kỳ Sơn District Police detected a drug ring operated by non-native people and they usually trafficked drugs from the central province to sell in northern provinces. Since then, investigations carried out and helped police catch the three suspects.
Meanwhile, in the southern province of An Giang, the province’s border guards arrested two suspects for involvement in the trafficking of 四0kg of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Việt Nam.
The arrest was also part of ongoing investigations into traffickers who allegedly brought drugs from Cambodia to the province. Police were informed the traffickers received drugs in Cambodia on May 五 and hired a 七-seater car to travel to HCM City. The An Giang Border Guard Co妹妹and asked for relevant agencies’ co-operation to catch the traffickers.
The traffickers travelled by boat on Bình Ghi River late on the evening of May 五. When police and border guards stopped them, the three suspects escaped on two waiting motorbikes before transferring to a car.
Police caught two of the suspects, named as An Ngọc Hà, 三 五 years old from Hà Nam Province and Nguyễn Văn Tài, 三0 years old from Hải Phòng City, and found 四0 bags of methamphetamine weighing about 四0kg.
Hà and Tài admitted to the police that they travelled by ferry to Cambodia on May 六 and got paid VNĐ 五0 million (US$ 二, 一 四0) and VNĐ 一 五 million ($ 六 四 二), respectively, to transport the drugs to Việt Nam. — VNS
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