Fake policeman cheated students out of 6 cheap phones

On the afternoon of September 17, Tan Ky District People's Court tried the criminal case against Vu Anh Tuan (born in 1985), residing in Hamlet 3, Dang Son Commune (Do Luong) for fraud and property appropriation.

At about 9:45 a.m. on April 10, 2019, Tuan drove a blue motorbike with license plate number 37H6 - 2499 into the yard of the boarding house of Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy's family in block 7, Tan Ky town to meet a friend. When he arrived, Tuan did not see anyone so he sat and waited.

At around 10 o'clock the same day, seeing 7 students, all born in 2001 and 2002, residing in Phu Son, Nghia Dong, Nghia Binh, and Tan Huong communes, boarding, returning from school, Tuan had the idea of ​​appropriating their property.

Subject Vu Anh Tuan. Photo: Phuong Hao

When Pham Hong Son, a resident of Tan Lam hamlet, Phu Son commune, was preparing to open the door, Tuan approached and asked, "What grade are you in?" Son replied, "I'm in 12th grade." Tuan then introduced himself as "Hoang Anh, Captain of the Investigation Team (Tan Ky District Police) investigating the case of students organizing gambling in this area" and asked Son to open the door to enter the room to ambush and arrest the gamblers.

Hearing that, Son believed it was true so he opened the door to let Tuan in. After entering Son's room, the two sat and talked for a while, then Son left the room to photocopy his ID card, so Tuan continued to go to other rented rooms. With the same trick, Tuan bragged: "I work in the drug investigation team, I know that there are many students in this rented room who use drugs and other addictive substances, you must not reveal anything to the outside so that I can investigate." Hearing Tuan say that, all the students believed it was true and said nothing. At this time, Son had just returned home. Tuan continued to ask: Are you guys involved in the case of high school students organizing gambling in this area, and the students answered that they did not know anything.

After that, Tuan asked the students to hand over all their cell phones to serve the police investigation. Before handing over, the students had to turn off all screen passwords, turn off their phones and write down the screen password on a piece of paper for Tuan.

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Without the slightest suspicion, the students obediently followed all of Tuan's requests. After taking 6 mobile phones of various types with a total value of over 11 million VND, the subject continued to ask Son to take the motorbike with Tuan to the district police station for questioning. After going a short distance, the subject stopped the motorbike and told Son to return to the boarding house to take another female friend to the police station for questioning. Waiting for Son to go a short distance, Tuan immediately accelerated, hugged the "spoils of war" and escaped towards Do Luong.

Upon arriving in Do Luong, Tuan took the 6 phones he had just seized to the phone store of Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong, residing in Hamlet 11, Da Son Commune to sell. Tuan told Ms. Huong: "I went to collect debt, I didn't have money to pay so they paid by phone." After that, she unlocked the passwords of each phone, Ms. Huong believed Tuan and bought 6 phones for 2.5 million VND.

After the students realized they were scammed, they went to Tan Ky District Police to report the incident.

After a period of investigation, on April 25, 2019, the Investigation Police Agency of Tan Ky District Police issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecuting the defendant Vu Anh Tuan for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property". During the investigation, the subject fled the locality, so the Investigation Police Agency of Tan Ky District Police issued a wanted notice for Vu Anh Tuan.

At around 10:00 a.m. on August 11, 2019, the detectives captured the subject in Nhu Hoa commune, Kim Son district, Ninh Binh province. The Tan Ky district police task force escorted Vu Anh Tuan to the district police headquarters to investigate and clarify. Here, the subject had to bow his head and admit all his crimes.

According to the asset valuation report of the Tan Ky District Criminal Proceedings Asset Valuation Council, the total value of the 6 mobile phones at the time of appropriation was 11.1 million VND.

It is known that Tuan has been to prison 3 times for the crimes of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and "Theft of property" with a total of 63 months in prison.

At the end of the trial, the panel sentenced Tuan to 18 months in prison.