Dien Bien caught two foreigners red-handed for illegally transporting drugs

Implementing the intensified crime crackdown plan before, during, and after the Lunar New Year of the Horse 2026, the Dien Bien Border Guard Command's Operations Department, in coordination with subordinate units, recently arrested two foreigners for illegally transporting narcotics; seized evidence included 4 blocks of heroin, 36,000 synthetic drug pills, and 1 kg of opium.

Two subjects and evidence when arrested by Dien Bien Border Guard at national border marker 83, on the Vietnam-Laos border.

Colonel Phan Van Hoa, Commander of the Dien Bien Border Guard Command, said: At 6:00 a.m. on December 9, in the Ket Tinh village area, Muong Pon commune (Dien Bien province), when the joint working group of the Dien Bien Border Guard Command was on duty at the National Border Marker No. 83, the Vietnam-Laos border, they discovered two men with many suspicious signs walking from the other side of the border towards the border of Dien Bien province.

Immediately, the working group asked the two men to stop for inspection; through inspection, it was discovered that in the subject's sack there were 6 rectangular cakes, inside were blue plastic bags containing pink round compressed pills, one side of the pills had the letter "WY" symbol, suspected to be synthetic drugs, the quantity was 36 thousand pills; 4 rectangular cakes, inside contained white powder, compressed (suspected to be heroin); 1 package wrapped in yellow paper, inside contained dark brown plastic (suspected to be opium) weighing about 1kg.

The working group has drawn up a record of the incident and brought the subject and evidence to Muong Pon Border Guard Station for further investigation.

Initial investigation revealed that two suspects were Xay-Som-Phon-In-Tha-Vong (born in 1988), residing in Co Liu village, Na Lam village cluster, Muong May district, PhongSaLy province; and one suspect was Uan-Lo-Van-Kham (born in 1984), residing in Sa Luong village, Hua Muc village cluster, Muong May district, PhongSaLy province, Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Initially, the two suspects confessed that they were hired by a man residing in Phongsaly province to transport the drugs to Dien Bien province for sale.

When the two subjects crossed the border to Dien Bien province to deliver drugs through Landmark 83, they were arrested by the Border Guard.

The case is currently under investigation.

LE LAN - HEROIC

Source: https://nhandan.vn/dien-bien-bat-qua-tang-2-nguoi-nuoc-ngoai-ve-toi-van-chuyen-trai-phep-chat-ma-tuy-post929010.html