Lao Cai police breaks big trans-border drug trafficking ring
Police in the northern border province of Lao Cai said on August 3 that they have broken down a drug trafficking ring, seizing three suspects and 84,800 tablets of meth.
Lao Cai (VNA) – Police in the northern borderprovince of Lao Cai said on August 3 that they have broken down a drugtrafficking ring, seizing three suspects and 84,800 tablets of meth.
Cu A Vang, born in 1972, residing in Nam Tin commune, Nam Podistrict of Dien Bien province; Tran Thi Din, born in 1979 and Vang Thi Pang,born in 1986, both from Muong Khuong district of Lao Cai province, werearrested on July 31 in O Quy Ho ward, Sa Pa district while transporting thedrugs.
The suspectsare part of a trans-national drug traffickingring which avoided police by changing the delivery method and addressesregularly.
At the police station, they said that they took the drugsfrom a Lao national called “Minh”who hired them to transport the drugs from anarea on the Vietnam-Laos border in Nam Po district of Dien Bien to Lao Caicity, and then deliver to a Chinese called “Thao” for 150 million VND. Pang andDin took the role as guides for Vang to the delivery address where they werearrested.
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Over 100kg of drugs were seized and 15 more suspects were arrested as a result of expanded investigation into a drug trafficking ring that transported drugs by sea from HCM City to the Republic of Korea.
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