Arrest of subject who burned down a rented room and killed someone, extremely dangerous

Subject Bach Ngoc Minh. Photo: VNA

On April 25, according to information from Dong Nai Provincial Police, the Criminal Police Department, Dong Nai Provincial Police and Bien Hoa City Police coordinated with Bac Lieu Provincial Police to urgently arrest Bach Ngoc Minh, 33 years old, residing in Trung Dung Ward, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, while he was hiding in Bac Lieu Province to investigate the act of murder.

Minh is the suspect who poured gasoline and burned down a rented room in Tan Hoa ward, Bien Hoa city in the early morning of April 23, 2023, causing 3 people in the family of Mr. Nguyen Van Anh, 48 years old, from Thai Binh province, to be severely burned and had to be transferred to hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City for emergency treatment.

Through initial investigation, Bach Ngoc Minh confessed to having a romantic relationship with Ms. Tran Thi Cam Mau, born in 1994, Hamlet 18, Vinh Binh Commune, Hoa Binh District, Bac Lieu Province. Due to conflicts over their love life, Minh had the idea of ​​using gasoline to burn Ms. Mau's rented room.

In the early morning of April 23, 2023, Minh alone drove a black Yamaha Exciter motorbike, license plate: 60B6-022.50, bought a can of gasoline and drove to a boarding house in Quarter 1, Tan Hoa Ward, Bien Hoa City, to find and burn Ms. Mau's boarding house. When he arrived, Minh saw that the boarding house had 3 adjacent rooms and 2 rooms with locked doors from the outside, only one room had the door unlocked from the outside and the lights were off inside.

Thinking that it was Ms. Mau's room, Minh took an aluminum clothes hanger and tied it tightly outside the main door of the rented room, then poured gasoline inside the room and took a piece of cloth soaked in gasoline, lit it, and threw the cloth inside the rented room. When he saw the fire, Minh ran out of the rented room and got on a motorbike to escape. After committing the crime, Minh continued to take a bus to Bac Lieu city to hide, and at the same time went to Ms. Mau's house in Hamlet 18, Vinh Binh Commune, Hoa Binh District, Bac Lieu Province to film and take pictures, and continued to threaten to take revenge on Ms. Mau's family.

Minh had absolutely no conflict with Anh's family. Because he suspected Mau was in the rented room, he doused her in gasoline and set her on fire. After the incident, Minh knew he had burned down the wrong room, so he continued to look for Mau to resolve the matter.emotional conflict

At the time of his arrest, Minh was using his Facebook account to send threatening messages to Ms. Mau's sister, Tran Thi Cam Hoa. Bach Ngoc Minh is a dangerous criminal with 4 previous convictions for disturbing public order, intentionally causing injury and theft of property. In order to successfully capture the subject and prevent him from continuing to commit crimes, Department PC02 has established a working group with many detectives coordinating with other units to carry out tasks 24/7 to quickly arrest the subject and protect the safety of Ms. Mau's family. The Criminal Police Department of Dong Nai Province Police is continuing to coordinate with professional units to investigate and clarify the case and bring it to trial according to the provisions of law.