Just released from prison, continue to buy and sell heroin

(Baonghean.vn) - Having just finished his prison term and returned to his hometown not long ago, a man with 3 previous convictions continued to illegally buy and sell drugs.

On the afternoon of December 16, Major Vo Minh Duc - Deputy Chief of Police of Le Loi Ward (Vinh City) said that he had just arrested a subject for illegally buying and selling drugs.

Subject Tran Van Quang.

According to the investigation agency, after a period of ambush, at 9:00 p.m. on December 14, at the gate of the Dong Bac Hotel, Block 9, Le Loi Ward, the Le Loi Ward police task force caught Tran Van Quang (born in 1964, residing in Block 6B, Cua Nam Ward, Vinh City) red-handed for illegally buying and selling drugs. The evidence seized in Quang's pants pocket was 0.215 grams of heroin.

Working with the investigation agency, Quang stated that on the night of December 14, he received a phone call from a stranger asking to buy 200,000 VND worth of heroin. Quang then bought a package of heroin from a stranger at Vinh bus station. At 9:00 p.m. that same night, Quang brought the goods to the hotel gate and waited for his partner to deliver the goods, but was caught red-handed by the police.

According to the investigation agency, Quang is a local tycoon with 3 previous convictions for the crimes of: Illegal drug trafficking; Theft of property. He recently completed his prison term and returned to his hometown in April 2016.

Le Loi ward police have transferred the subject and case file to Vinh city police for handling according to their authority.

Ngoc Diep