Buy 100kg of firecrackers to hide in the house to sell retail
(Baonghean.vn) - Thai and Thinh bought fireworks from the northern border provinces, then brought them home to hide and sell for profit.
 Thai and Thinh along with 100kg of firecrackers were arrested by Thanh Chuong District Police. Photo: Duc Vu |
Thanh Chuong District Police are temporarily detaining Nguyen Cong Thai (born 1995) and Ngo Van Thinh (born 1991), both residing in Hamlet 7, Thanh Van Commune, Thanh Chuong District, to clarify the act of illegally buying and selling fireworks.
Previously, at around 11:00 a.m. on December 22, at Thanh Van commune, Thanh Chuong district, Thanh Chuong district police presided over and coordinated with the Customs Control Team (Thanh Thuy Border Gate Customs Branch) to catch Thai and Thinh red-handed while selling 2 cakes of 36 firecrackers to a man.
During an emergency search of the two suspects' residence, the police seized 44 more firecrackers, 36 of which were foreign-made, with a total weight of 100 kg.
At the investigation agency, Thai and Thinh confessed to buying the above firecrackers from the North and then bringing them home to hide and sell them for profit near Tet. They bought each firecracker for 600,000 VND and sold it for 800,000 VND.
Lieutenant Colonel Tran Van Hung - Deputy Head of Thanh Chuong District Police said that from mid-November 2018 to now, the unit has discovered and arrested 17 cases, 25 criminals related to fireworks, and seized 250 kg of various types of fireworks.
