Gambling den surrounded by police, dozens of people flee in panic in the rice fields
While engrossed in gambling, dozens of people were surrounded by police and immediately abandoned their money and vehicles to flee, causing the rice fields to be trampled and damaged.
Kien Giang police said the unit had just broken upcasinoin Tan Thanh commune, Tan Hiep district with the participation of more than 100 gamblers.
At the scene, the police detained 21 subjects, nearly 80 motorbikes, 18 chickens, 1 meter scale, over 100 million VND and many other items used for gambling.
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Money and evidence collected at the scene |
According to initial investigation results, the locationgambleThis was organized by two individuals who collected "money". To avoid detection and arrest by the police, they chose a location for the casino deep in the garden, with rice fields on both sides to facilitate their escape when caught.
The top is covered with a silver sheet to protect from the sun and rain. To prevent passersby from seeing the gambler's car parked in front, the organizers used a large tarpaulin pulled across the land to camouflage it. Around the gambling den, there are many people guarding the road from afar; therefore, although this gambling den has been organized for nearly 20 days, the local police force cannot approach it because it has been exposed because the subjects already know it.
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The subjects were arrested. |
It is worth mentioning that this casino has sick elderly people who come to play cockfighting and dice for money. Every day, hundreds of gamblers come from Tan Hiep, Hon Dat districts, Rach Gia city and Thoai Son district, An Giang province to gamble with each other, each time winning or losing from 500 thousand dong to tens of millions of dong.
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Motorbikes of the subjects participating in gambling. |
Faced with the increasingly complex transformation of gambling dens, negatively affecting local security and order, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Du - Chief of Tan Hiep District Police, Kien Giang Province, has made a secret plan to eradicate them.
After the gambling den was destroyed, at around 5:00 p.m. on the 30th of Tet, knowing that they could not escape, the two leaders of this casino, Nguyen Van Hoang Dong (born in 1984) and Ho Van Gioi (born in 1986), both residing in Tan Thanh commune, Tan Hiep district, went to the Investigation Police Agency of Tan Hiep district to surrender.