Nghe An Police: Reward for the project to arrest a drug lord with a hot weapon

(Baonghean.vn)- On June 27, the leaders of Nghe An province's police organized a ceremony to reward and encourage, and visit officers and soldiers who participated in successfully breaking the case codenamed 1216M, arresting a drug lord with a hot weapon.

As reported by Nghe An Newspaper, the main subject in Project 1216M is drug "boss" Luong Ba Duy, born in 1986, residing in Na Khom village, Yen Na commune, Tuong Duong district.

Subject Luong Ba Duy, photo Van Chien

Due to his early love of partying, Duy soon became addicted to drugs, injected drugs, and was infected with HIV at the age of 30.

To have money to cover living expenses and satisfy his addiction, in 2014, Duy joined a drug trafficking ring led by Truong Quang Thanh (42 years old) and Hoang Van Nhien (31 years old), both residing in Quang Nam province.

Because he was familiar with the area and knew many ethnic languages, Duy took Thanh and Nhien to the border area in Tuong district to trade drugs with the Mong people in Laos. When Thanh and Nhien were transporting drugs to Quang Nam province for consumption, they were caught red-handed by the Drug Crime Investigation Police Department of Nghe An province.

As for Luong Ba Duy, he quickly escaped into the forest and was wanted by the Criminal Investigation Agency (Nghe An Provincial Police) nationwide in 2014. After a period of hiding in the forest, at the end of April 2016, local people discovered Luong Ba Duy at his residence.

Instead of going to the investigation agency to surrender, Duy continued to follow the old path, he often went into the forest to find "partners" to set up a drug trafficking network across Vietnam. This time he did not only buy and sell "white goods" like before, but also sought to buy many "types", such as crystal meth, synthetic drugs and heroin.

Under the kitchen of his house, he built a cellar about 4 square meters wide and 2.3 meters high, photo by Van Chien

More dangerous and daring, to serve the drug trafficking and at the same time deal with the authorities, at home, he dug an underground tunnel leading to the stream behind the house as a hiding place, avoiding detection by the police and local authorities and storing all kinds of "hot" weapons with full ammunition. As for AK guns, he was equipped with 2 guns, along with 4 grenades.

Duy installed air conditioning in the underground bunker and a screen connected to two cameras to monitor movements from outside, photo by Van Chien

Identifying "boss" Luong Ba Duy as an extremely dangerous subject, the leaders of Tuong Duong District Police focused on implementing professional investigation measures to clarify Luong Ba Duy's criminal behavior.

After a period of undercover surveillance, on June 21, Tuong District Police broke up the case, catching Luong Ba Duy red-handed with the evidence of the case and various firearms.

From the cellar there is an emergency exit leading to a slot behind the house about 3 meters long, which can easily allow a person weighing about 80 kg to escape.

Evidence seized at the scene included: 5 packages of crystal meth, 100 pink pills, 1 K59 gun and 2 sports guns.

Searching Duy's residence and underground bunker, the investigation agency of Tuong Duong District Police seized more than 2,300 synthetic drug pills, 500 grams of heroin, 4 homemade mines, 1 grenade; 2 AK guns and 64 bullets; 10 homemade hunting guns that shoot sports bullets and 26 bullets; dozens of homemade hunting guns, electric batons and many knives and swords of various types; 3 motorbikes, 2 mobile phones and 30,000,000 VND in cash.

Evidence of the case, photo of Van Chien

Amount of drugs seized

In addition, Tuong Duong District Police also seized 3 cameras installed by Duy at his house and bunker to serve drug trafficking.

Colonel Nguyen Manh Hung - Deputy Director of Provincial Police commended the project team

To promptly encourage officers and soldiers participating in solving the case, the leaders of Nghe An Provincial Police awarded 5 million VND to the 1216M Project Team and visited, encouraged, and gave gifts to two comrades, Dau Trong Cuong and Nguyen Van Lam - district police officers who were injured while arresting the suspect Luong Ba Duy, who is currently undergoing treatment to prevent HIV exposure.

Hai Chau