Dien Bien Customs Department makes two drug busts
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Hang A Xa and two bricks of heroin. |
At 12:20pm on April 2, in Suoi Lu village, Dien Bien province, the Drug Enforcement Unit coordinated with Dien Bien Public Security forces and Dien Bien Dong District Public Security to arrest a group of people suspected of drug related crimes.
Members of the unit approached the group and arrested a man named as Hang A Xa, born in 1998.
Inspecting the man’s bag, officers found two bricks of white powder wrapped in a blue plastic.
Hang A Xa confessed that the substance was heroin.
At 3:00pm on March 31, the unit coordinated with the Investigation Police Division on Drug-related Crimes under Dien Bien Police investigated a group in Dien Bien and discovered three men suspected of involvement in drug-related crimes.
When the officers approached the men, two escaped on a motorcycle. The remaining suspect was arrested and named as Hang A Khua, born in 1992.
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Officers found a package containing 4,000 pills in his bag.
Hang A Khua declared that the above tablets were synthetic drugs bought from a Lao citizen.
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