A drug trafficker in northern Hai Phong City delivered speakers in which drugs were hidden to his customers in an attempt to avoid detection. On Monday, December 9, the city’s anti-drug police arrested Van Hieu Dung, 33, a local man, who had led a ring that illegally traded in drugs. Dung is a driver of a forklift at Hoang Dieu Port in the city, but he operated a drug ring in Hai Phong and neighboring provinces, police said. Dung’s girlfriend, Tran Thi Thu Huong, 30, assisted him in his drug deals. After months of investigation from a tip-off, police caught the couple selling drugs – hidden in a speaker – to a buyer at a café in An Duong District. The police seized five packs of drugs weighing 500 grams in total and three plastic bags containing nearly 200 synthetic drug tablets.
Van Hieu Dung is seen at the police's office in Hai Phong City (Photo: Tuoi Tre)
Dung confessed to police that he hid drugs in speakers to avoid detection. In another incident, anti-drug police from the Ministry of Public Security and Ho Chi Minh City are investigating a serious case in which 600 bricks of heroin were able to pass through Ho Chi Minh City customs undetected, and were only discovered upon entering Taiwan. These bricks of heroin, which weighed 229 kilograms in total, were also stashed in 12 empty speakers packed in 12 cartons, which left Tan Son Nhat Airport on November 16 and were detected by Taiwanese authorities when the shipment arrived in the Taoyuan International Airport a day later. Four security officers at the airport have been suspended for investigation.