More than 100 police officers 'broke in' to destroy a 'huge' gambling den armed with guns

With the form of gambling, more than 36 subjects gathered in a gambling den equipped with guns and bullets for self-defense. Discovering the incident, more than 100 police were mobilized, divided into 4 secret groups, to close in and destroy this large gambling den.

36 subjects at the police station.

At around 4:30 p.m. on March 30, more than 100 criminal and mobile police officers divided into 4 groups, secretly approached the house of suspect Duong Van Son (46 years old), in Area A, Lam town, district of Y Yen. During the raid, the police force arrested 36 subjects who were organizing and participating in gambling in the form of dice shaking here. At the scene, the police seized about 330 million VND in cash, 39 cell phones on the gambling mat... In addition, the owner of the gambling den also had 1 pistol.

The ringleaders of this gambling den include: Bui Huu Ly (47 years old), nicknamed Ly “Thuong”; Duong Doan Thanh (28 years old); Pham Van Vuong, (56 years old). All of the above subjects reside in Lam town, district of Y Yen. Of these, 4 subjects are on guard duty; 2 subjects act as “credit” for the gambling den (lending money to gamblers); Duong Trung Hai (36 years old) acts as “tablet”; Duong Ba Quan (28 years old) acts as “croupier”; Nguyen Huu Binh (42 years old), holds the position of “chopper”; the remaining 24 people are “gamblers” and are all from district of Y Yen…

This gambling den operates in two shifts from 3pm to 6pm and from 10pm the night before to 1am or 2am the next morning. Each gambler must pay 300,000 to 500,000 VND to enter. If they lose, they can borrow credit from the den and get a direct interest cut of 50,000 VND/million.

Evidence of the case.

When searching the house of the gambling den owner, Bui Huu Ly, the police discovered and seized many weapons, including a pistol with 8 bullets in the magazine and a set of dishes with an electronic chip attached to them for use in cheating gambling.

At the police station, Bui Huu Ly confessed to buying the gun and bullets in 2012 from an unidentified person for 5 million VND, for self-defense purposes while doing business, but had never used them.

Since early 2016, the Criminal Police Department of Nam Dinh Province Police has been aware of this gambling den and has deployed many plans to collect information about the subjects in the network as well as the method of operation. After a period of understanding the method of operation, the functional forces proceeded to raid this gambling den.

One of the leaders in a "huge" gambling den.

It is known that Bui Huu Ly, one of the three ringleaders identified by the police as a thug, is under suspicion of using military weapons.

Nam Dinh Provincial Police are continuing to investigate and expand the case.

According to Dan Tri