Visiting vegetable field, woman had 95 million VND stolen from motorbike trunk

On the afternoon of March 14, the Investigation Police Agency of Ninh Hai District (Ninh Thuan) announced that it had issued a decision to temporarily detain Nguyen Van Phuong (born in 1977, residing in Quarter 6, Dao Long Ward, Phan Rang - Thap Cham City, Ninh Thuan Province) to investigate and handle the act of property theft.

Previously, at 1:45 p.m. on March 13, Vinh Hai Commune Police, Ninh Hai District received information from Ms. Nguyen Thi Dong (born in 1988, residing in My Hoa Village, Vinh Hai Commune) saying that after nearly half an hour of parking her motorbike near Provincial Road 702, then going into her family's vegetable garden to harvest onions, when Ms. Dong came out to check, the thief had stolen 95 million VND under the trunk of her motorbike.

Immediately afterwards, a working group of Ninh Hai District Police urgently arrived at the scene to coordinate with Vinh Hai Commune Police to collect information and extract cameras in the area to deploy hot pursuit measures.

After nearly two hours of searching and screening a number of suspects, detectives from the Criminal Police Team of Ninh Hai District Police identified the thief as Nguyen Van Phuong, so they proceeded to arrest this man.

During an urgent search of Phuong's residence in An Thanh 1 village, An Hai commune, Ninh Phuoc district (Ninh Thuan), the investigation agency seized nearly 87 million VND hidden in a wardrobe and a ceramic jar in the flower garden of her private home. Phuong spent the remaining money.

It is known that Nguyen Van Phuong had a previous conviction for theft, but did not reform and continued to commit the above theft.