Drug gang busted in Đồng Nai

The amount of money seized from the suspects. Photo: soha.vn

ĐỒNG NAI – The Đồng Nai drug police agency busted a drug gang on Tuesday, arresting four suspects and seizing heroin, meth and ecstasy from them.

The arrested were identified as Đào Tuấn Anh, 26, of Bình Dương Province, Trần Thanh Trung, 25, of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province and Trần Quốc Bảo, 28, and Nguyễn Huy Bình, 26, of Đồng Nai.

According to the Police Deparment for Investigation of Drug-related Crimes (PC47), they caught Anh with 148 ecstasy pills, six packs of heroin, and five mobile phones in Tam Phước Commune in Biên Hòa City.

They then raided his house and discovered a shotgun with 80 bullets.

Bảo and Trung were caught in Tam Phước with heroin and US$900 and VNĐ5 million ($220) in cash.

A searching of their houses turned up more heroin, a car, and more than VNĐ600 million ($26,406) in cash.

Bình had two packs of meth and a car.

The four allegedly bought drugs and sold them in Đồng Nai, Bình Dương, and Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu provinces. The cars the police found were hired. – VNS

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