Two friends were sentenced to prison for buying drugs to sober up.
(Baonghean.vn) - After drinking alcohol, two subjects in the border commune of Ky Son invited each other to buy drugs to "cure the hangover" and were arrested.
On May 24, the People's Court of Ky Son district opened a first-instance trial for the defendants Lo Van Duc (born 1994) and Ven Van Nhan (born 1996), both residing in Khanh Thanh village, Nam Can commune (Ky Son) for the crime of "Illegal possessiondrugs
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| Defendants at trial. Photo: Hoang Tuan |
According to the indictment, at around 10:00 p.m. on December 27, 2021, after drinking together, Lo Van Duc invited Ven Van Nhan to buy drugs to sober up, and Nhan agreed. Afterwards, Nhan and Duc each contributed 100,000 VND and went down to Noong De village, Nam Can commune to buy drugs. When they arrived at Noong De village, Duc and Nhan met an unfamiliar Thai man and bought 5 pills of drugs (pink pills) from him for 200,000 VND.
After purchasing the drugs, Duc and Nhan were preparing to use them when the working group of Nam Can Commune Police in coordination with Nam Can International Border Gate Border Guard Station and Nam Can International Border Gate Customs Branch discovered and seized the above evidence.
At the first instance trial, Lo Van Duc and Ven Van Nhan confessed to all their crimes.
After carefully considering the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, the panel of judges decided to sentence the defendants Lo Van Duc to 20 months in prison and Ven Van Nhan to 20 months in prison for the crime of "Illegal possession of narcotics".
