Ha Tinh Customs coordinate to arrest a man carrying heroin

VCN – The Anti-drugs Enforcement Team (Ha Tinh Customs Department) coordinated with Drugs Criminal Investigation Police Division (Ha Tinh Police) and Huong Son District Police to successfully close specialized project 0819MT and arrest a man carrying two bricks of heroin.
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Pen Chan Tha Vong (red T-shirt) at the investigation agency

On August 26, at Ngan Pho hotel (located in Pho Chau town, Huong Son district), the competent forces arrested Pen Chan Tha Vong who was born in 1982 (from Xop Tuong village, Xay Cham phon, Bolykhămxay, Laos) for storing narcotics.

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heroin and other exhibits were seized by competent force

At the scene, the competent force discovered that under the bed was a plastic bag containing two bricks suspected to contain heroin.

Additionally, at the investigation agency, Pen Chan Tha Vong claimed that he was hired to transport the heroin from Laos to Vietnam. To avoid the surveillance of competent forces, Vong crossed through the forest to Ngan Pho hotel to deliver the drugs.

Currently, the competent forces are conducting further investigations.

By Đảo Lê/Thanh Thuy

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