Arrest of subjects buying and selling rare animals
Anh Son District Police have just arrested Nguyen Trong Duc (born 1995), residing in Anh Son town, Anh Son district, for the act of "Illegal hunting, capturing, raising, confining, transporting, and trading of animals in the list of endangered, precious, and rare species prioritized for protection".
Previously, through the work of grasping the situation, Anh Son District Police discovered that there were subjects in the area who were trading in endangered and rare animals. Faced with that situation, the District Police established a special project to fight and destroy.
Using synchronous professional measures, at 10:00 a.m. on June 18, on National Highway 7 in Anh Son town, the Task Force caught Nguyen Trong Duc red-handed transporting a coolie weighing 300 grams.
During an urgent search of the suspect's residence, the police seized two more pythons weighing a total of 18 kg. The Anh Son District Police Investigation Agency has handed over one loris and two pythons to Pu Mat National Park for care and preservation. At the same time, Nguyen Trong Duc is being held in criminal detention for further investigation.
