Two Vietnamese Return from Cambodian Shopping Trip with Drugs and Guns (UPDATED)

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Re: Vietnamese Returns from Cambodian Shopping Trip with Drugs and Guns

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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Wed May 27, 2020 9:18 pm Note that the man actually left Cambodia without the slightest problem, carrying several guns, ammo, and 20 kilos of drugs. Fortunately, the Vietnamese border police
take this sort of traffic more seriously.
First case:
John Bingham wrote: Thu May 28, 2020 9:53 am
Those are Vietnamese soldiers.
You're pretty quick-witted. Yes, the title was/is mistyped/labeled. However, it does state he was arrested on the Vietnam border after the Cambodians let him stamp out of KoW.
Still here, in country...
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Re: Two Vietnamese Return from Cambodian Shopping Trip with Drugs and Guns (UPDATED)

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Six arrested in Cambodia for cross border drug trafficking
By An Nam June 7, 2020 | 07:30 am GMT+7
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Four Vietnamese drug traffickers are detained in Cambodia on May 28, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/An Nam.

Four Vietnamese and two Cambodians were detained in Phnom Penh and escorted to Vietnam Saturday for involvement in a cross-border drug trafficking ring.

The detained Vietnamese citizens are: Ma Kim Nguyen, 24, Tran Tan Loi, 23, Nguyen Trung Kien, 43, and Bui Van Quang, 28. The two Cambodian nationals are EK Xa Rit and Xuon Kim Bo, both aged 34, border guards in the Mekong Delta province of Long An, which borders Cambodia, said Saturday.

On May 26, police in Long An had arrested Tran Tuan Khanh, 30, as he passed through a border gate to enter Vietnam from Cambodia with a bag containing 20.8 kg of drugs, two K59 pistols, a Zoraki pistol, a magazine and 25 bullets.

Khanh admitted to the police he’d bought the guns and drugs from an unidentified person in Cambodia and intended to sell them in Vietnam.

Based on Khanh’s testimony, two days later border guards in Long An and Phnom Penh police officers raided two houses in Phnom Penh and detained the six suspects. They seized a total of 513 pills of drugs, 19 plastic bags containing synthetic drug tablets, two military-style guns, and 63 bullets, among other items.

Police are expanding the investigation into the cross-border drug trafficking ring.

Vietnam has closed borders with southwestern neighbor Cambodia and suspended entry as well as all cross-border activities since April due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, many Vietnamese have recently been caught illegally entering the country through checkpoints and trails.
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The girl looks about 12 years old!
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Re: Two Vietnamese Return from Cambodian Shopping Trip with Drugs and Guns (UPDATED)

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It's good to know that none of the guns were used, it also seems now that the drugs are hand in hand with guns, seen this on odd occasion, but not like this before, growing trend now, again lets hope the drug runners don't start shooting.
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that suitcase o_o
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Re: Two Vietnamese Return from Cambodian Shopping Trip with Drugs and Guns (UPDATED)

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I'm gonna call this guy as the cause of the bust.
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