Man held with 73 cakes of heroin

March 23, 2017 - 17:00

Police from the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn on Wednesday said they have arrested a man near Hoàng Đồng Commune for illegally transporting 73 cakes of heroin.

 

The heroin cakes seized by the police.— Photo anninhthudo.vn
Viet Nam News

LẠNG SƠN — Police from the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn on Wednesday said they have arrested a man near Hoàng Đồng Commune for illegally transporting 73 cakes of heroin.

The accused, Lương Văn Thiệu, 28, a resident of Bảo Lâm Commune, was caught red-handed on Tuesday while driving a motorbike without a registered number plate on the stretch of National Highway No 1A running through Hoàng Đồng Commune.

Thiệu admitted that he had been hired by a man to transport the heroin, but said he did not know anything about the man. Investigations are going on. —VNS

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