Thrilling case of overnight journey through the forest to destroy a drug trafficking ring of hundreds of tons of drugs

Huge drug ring exposed
Through the work of grasping the local situation, detectives of the Drug Investigation Police Department of Nghe An Provincial Police discovered a ring of illegal buying, selling and transporting of substances.drugin very large quantities from Laos through the border area of ​​Ky Son district to the northern provinces for consumption.

Each of their “shipments” usually involves a large amount of drugs, up to hundreds of kilograms. To transport this amount of drugs, they mobilize a large force to participate, fully equipped with hot weapons, assign roles and tasks to each link, and use many sophisticated and cunning tricks to deceive the authorities.

Confiscated exhibits. Photo: Trong Tuan

Faced with that situation, the Provincial Police Department, directly led by Major General Vo Trong Hai - Director; Colonel Nguyen Manh Hung - Deputy Director, directed the establishment of a special task force to fight and eradicate this drug ring.

From there, it was clarified that the main subjects in the ring include: Vu A Thang (born 2001), Giang A Minh (born 1999), Ly A Po (born 2000), Mua A Vu (born 1988), all residing in Ka Hau village, Na U commune, Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province. They are often present in the border area near Nam Can border gate to receive large amounts of drugs from Laos to transport to the northern provinces for consumption.

Take away the "net"

The arrested subjects. Photo: Trong Tuan

Although the weather in the Vietnam-Laos border area this season is harsh, with frequent rain and cold, the members of the investigation team still stick to it. For a whole week, the members of the investigation team divided into many working groups to travel from the Vietnam-Laos border area in Nghe An to remote villages in Dien Bien province just to clarify the whereabouts of the subjects in this "huge" drug ring.

On December 7, through the exchange of information from the coordinating professional units and according to the information from the scouts, the subjects in the ring were preparing to carry out a major operation with a huge amount of drugs gathering in Laos, preparing to smuggle them into Nghe An through Ky Son district to be transported to the northern provinces for consumption. Immediately, the information was reported to the leaders of the Provincial Police, directly by Major General Vo Trong Hai - Director of the Provincial Police and Colonel Nguyen Manh Hung, who directed the Task Force to prepare to go to solve the case.

Drugs were hidden in sacks by the subjects. Photo: Contributor

On the same day, 6 working groups quickly set out to coordinate with the scouts to set up positions and wait for the opportunity to strike. The first group of 7 comrades, led by Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Anh Tuan - Team Leader of Team 1, lay in ambush in the Noong De village area, Nam Can commune, to monitor the movements of the subjects.

The second group, consisting of 5 comrades, lay in ambush in the Muong Xen town area, especially the bus station area of ​​Ky Son district; the third group, consisting of 7 comrades, directed by Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duc Kien - Deputy Head of the Department, coordinated with the Tuong Duong District Police to block the area of ​​Thach Giam town, Tuong Duong district; the fourth group, consisting of 6 comrades, coordinated with the Con Cuong District Police to block the border area between Con Cuong district and Tuong Duong district to intercept the subjects on the way back; the fifth group, consisting of 8 comrades, directed by Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Thai Hoa - Deputy Head of the Department, moved on 2 reconnaissance cars along National Highway 7A; the sixth group, consisting of 17 comrades, directly directed by Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Huu Cuong, intercepted and captured the group of subjects in the mountainous forest area of ​​Tam Dinh commune, Tuong Duong district, Nghe An.

Throughout the rainy night, the working groups continued to cross the forest, following the target, waiting for the opportunity to attack. At 4 a.m. on December 8, when group 1 discovered the subjects leaving Phanh Dan 2 motel, getting into a pickup truck and driving in the dark towards Nam Can International Border Gate.

About 20 minutes later, the subjects returned and passed through the surveillance area of ​​​​Team 1 towards Muong Xen town at high speed. Realizing that the subjects had received the "goods", Team 1 quickly left their position to follow closely, while maintaining contact with other teams on Highway 7A. At about 5:00 a.m., when the car carrying 4 suspects in the drug ring arrived at Tam Dinh, Tuong Duong area, the working teams suddenly rushed out in the darkness and quickly stopped the car. Unexpectedly suppressed, the 4 subjects barricaded themselves in the car.

The head of the investigation team ordered to fire warning shots to suppress and force the subjects to surrender. When the subjects lost their vigilance, the detectives quickly rushed in and broke the car windows to capture the subjects.

During the on-site search, the Special Police Department seized 8 sacks, including 150 cakes suspected to be heroin and 126 box-shaped bags wrapped like tea bags suspected to be 126 packages of crystal meth. Immediately, the subjects and all the evidence were taken to the Con Cuong District Police Headquarters for clarification. Here, the subjects confessed that the above goods were heroin and crystal meth that they had just received from Lao subjects of unknown names and addresses, intending to transport them to the northern provinces for consumption.
On the afternoon of December 8, 2020, at the headquarters of the Nghe An Provincial Police Department, the appraisal force organized an appraisal of the seized drugs in the Special Task Force. Thereby, it was determined that there were 150 heroin cakes and 126 kg of crystal meth.

The subjects confessed that 4 days ago, the subjects including Vu A Thang, Giang A Minh and Ly A Po from Dien Bien province met in Hanoi and then drove a pickup truck from Hanoi to Nghe An. As for the subject Mua A Vu, he jumped on an outside bus, got off at Dien Chau, then continued to take a bus to Muong Xen town to meet the remaining subjects. The remaining 3 subjects drove straight to Ky Son district, then drove back down to Tuong Duong to avoid detection by the authorities.

In the 3 days before the transaction, the subjects continuously moved to scout, and changed motels in Ky Son as well as Tuong Duong to avoid being monitored by the authorities. On the afternoon of December 7, 3 subjects ran to Ky Son, met Vu at the Phanh Dan motel. After staying overnight, at dawn, 4 subjects ran to the Vietnam-Laos border area to "receive the goods". However, they could not escape the authorities.

It is known that this is one of the major projects of Nghe An Provincial Police to kick off a campaign to attack and suppress all types of crimes to ensure security and order for the 13th National Party Congress and the 2021 Lunar New Year.