Visiting the sick in the hospital, "conveniently" trafficking drugs
(Baonghean.vn) - After visiting a relative in the hospital, Nguyen Van Tho received an offer to buy and sell drugs. He accepted and was caught red-handed by the police while committing the act.
On the morning of April 11, the Provincial People's Court opened a first-instance criminal trial of defendant Nguyen Van Tho (born 1992), residing in Nghi Van commune, Nghi Loc district, for the crime of "Illegal drug trafficking".
According to the indictment, because they knew each other before, on November 28, 2018, Nguyen Van Tho and a man named Viet (unknown background and specific address) traveled from Dien Chau district to Vinh city. When arriving at Vinh airport, Viet got off the car and Tho went to Hospital 115 to visit a relative who was being treated there.
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| Nguyen Van Tho at court. |
About 2 hours later, Viet called Tho and asked him to come to the gate of Nghe An General Hospital to collect the debt. When Tho arrived, he saw a white car waiting so he got in. There was a man sitting in the car who gave Tho a black plastic bag and told Tho to go with a man named Son (who was sitting in the back seat of the car) to Anphaan Hotel to discuss buying and selling drugs. Tho agreed and put the plastic bag in his pocket.
Arriving at the hotel, Tho and Son rented a room on the 3rd floor. There, Son told Tho to open the bag and check it. Tho checked and counted 7 packages. Then, both of them took the plastic bag down to the hotel to make the drug transaction and receive the money.
When he went down to the first floor of the hotel, seeing the police, Tho immediately threw the drugs in his hand on the floor to destroy the evidence. However, the working group of Truong Thi Ward Police, in coordination with the Drug Crime Investigation Police Team of Vinh City Police, arrested Nguyen Van Tho. The seized evidence included 6 bags of potylene containing methamphetamine with a total weight of 131.065 grams.
In court, after a while of denying the crime, the defendant admitted to the crime. The defendant expressed remorse and asked the jury to consider leniency so that he could soon return home to raise his children and take care of his parents.
The panel of judges determined that the defendant’s actions were dangerous to society, because of greed he had recklessly traded in drugs. However, the defendant committed the crime for the first time, had a good character, confessed honestly, and considered the case comprehensively. The panel of judges sentenced Nguyen Van Tho to 20 years in prison for “Illegal trading of narcotics”.
