Dien Bien Customs arrests man carrying four packages of heroin

VCN - Tay Trang International Border Gate Customs Branch coordinated with other authorities to handle case 921D and arrest a man carrying four packages of heroin on the morning of December 12, said the leader of Tay Trang Customs Branch.
Dien Bien Customs arrests person transporting nine bricks of heroin Dien Bien Customs arrests person transporting nine bricks of heroin
Dien Bien Customs seizes nine packages of heroin Dien Bien Customs seizes nine packages of heroin
Dien Bien Customs seizes 6,000 synthetic drug tablets Dien Bien Customs seizes 6,000 synthetic drug tablets
The officers investigate the case. Photo: Tay Trang Customs Branch
The officers investigate the case. Photo: Tay Trang Customs Branch

At 6pm on December 11, at Nam He 1 village, He Muong commune, Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province, Dien Bien district police chaired and coordinated with PC04 Division, Dien Bien Police, Tay Trang Border Guard Station and Tay Trang international border gate Customs Branch, the Drug Enforcement Team (Dien Bien Customs Department) to successfully crack case 921D and caught a man named Lau A Dinh, born in 1997, residing in Na U commune, Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province for drug trafficking.

At the scene, the authorities seized four packages of heroin, a motorbike and evidence related to the case.

The authorities are preparing procedures and expanding investigation of the case.

Previously, on December 5, at landmark area 117 in Na U village, Na U commune, Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province, the working group including Tay Trang international border gate Customs Branch worked with Tay Trang Border Guard Station and Drug and Crime Prevention (Dien Bien Border Guard Command) to detect a man on the Vietnamese-Laos border area with suspicious signs.

Thus, the working group asked the man to stop for inspection. The man declared his name as Dia Va (Lao nationality).

Dien Bien Customs seizes 78 packages of heroin Dien Bien Customs seizes 78 packages of heroin

VCN- A suspect transporting 78 packages of heroin was arrested by Dien Bien Customs in coordination with ...

The group discovered a cloth bag containing 30 plastic bags of pink tablets with the symbol WY (suspected to be synthetic drugs).

The man confessed that the 6,000 tablets were synthetic drugs.

By Quang Hung/ Huyen Trang

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