While serving a suspended sentence for theft, a young man is now facing a drug charge.

On the morning of June 14, 2019, Tan Ky District People's Court tried the criminal case against Tran Vinh Hung (born in 1980), residing at Hamlet 16, Hung Loc Commune, Vinh City, for the crime of illegal possession of drugs.

According to the indictment, at around 8:15 a.m. on March 22, 2019, Hung was addicted to drugs so he walked to the old bus station in Le Loi ward, Vinh city to ask to buy drugs for use. Here, Hung hooked up with a man and bought 1 package of crystal meth (a synthetic drug) wrapped in a white plastic bag for 800,000 VND. Hung took the package of drugs, hid it in his shirt pocket and took the bus to Tan Ky town.

At 10:30 a.m. the same day, Hung entered the Volga Hotel in Block 3, Tan Ky Town and rented room 102 of the hotel to rest. In the room, Hung took out the drug kit and some drugs he had bought earlier to use. After using them, Hung put the drug kit in the closet in the room, and left the remaining drugs in his jacket hanging in the room.

Subject Tran Vinh Hung at the trial. Photo: Nguyen Tran

At about 20:45 on the same day, when Vinh was in the room, the Tan Ky District Police force coordinated with the Tan Ky Town Police, Tan Ky District to conduct an administrative inspection. During the inspection, the working group discovered the drugs Hung bought for use and a set of drug use tools including: 01 white plastic bottle of 297ml with a blue plastic cap, on the cap was attached 01 white glass suction nozzle with a funnel-shaped end and 01 blue plastic suction nozzle, 01 used gas lighter.

The working group drew up a record of the arrest of Hung, sealed the aforementioned drug package, seized related evidence, and then escorted Hung to the headquarters for questioning.

In the conclusion of the appraisal No. 510/KL-PC09(MT) dated March 24, 2019 of the Criminal Techniques Department of Nghe An Provincial Police, it was concluded that the sample of white crystalline solid seized from Hung sent for appraisal was synthetic drugs, weighing 0.555g.

Previously, on October 11, 2018, the Tan Ky District People's Court sentenced him to 12 months in prison but suspended the sentence, with a 24-month probation for the crime of "Theft of property" due to having committed 3 cases of telecommunication cable theft, right at Hung's workplace between March and July 2018. Currently, Hung has not yet completed his sentence and continues to commit crimes.

The jury sentenced Hung to 36 months in prison.