16-year-old boy impersonates police officer, stops pedestrians to extort money

On June 3, Song Binh Commune Police (Bac Binh District, Binh Thuan Province) said they were detaining Nguyen Pham Hoang Duong (16 years old) and Nguyen Thuan Quy (19 years old, both residing in Luong Son Town, Bac Binh District) to investigate and clarify the act of impersonating police officers, blocking vehicles of passersby toextortion.

Previously, at around 6:30 p.m. on June 1, Mr. PVQ (18 years old, residing in Tan Hoa village, Song Binh commune) was driving a motorbike on National Highway 28B, from Luong Son to Song Binh commune to go home when Duong and Quy on a motorbike from behind overtook and blocked him.

In it, Quy wearing militia uniform drove, while Duong wearing riot police uniform sat in the back.

The two subjects introduced themselves as police officers and informed Mr. Q. that he had violated traffic laws. Then, the subjects asked Mr. Q. to give them 2 million VND to have the violation ignored, but before he could receive the money, he was arrested by the police.

At the police station, Duong confessed to ordering the mobile police uniform on social media; the militia uniform belonged to Quy, who gave it to him when he joined the militia.

At around 3:00 p.m. on June 1, Duong invited Quy to stop traffic participants along National Highway 28B with the intention of taking money from violators.

Before committing the above incident, the two subjects stopped a girl's car to ask for her papers, but then ran away when they heard people calling the commune police to verify.

In addition, Duong confessed to having blocked traffic participants three times with a friend to extort nearly 2 million VND.

The incident is being further verified and clarified by the police.