A wanted woman, who was a member of a gang that used anesthetic in their robbery in Vietnam, has turned herself in to police in the southern city of Can Tho after seven years of hiding abroad, officers have said.

>> Two youths nabbed for snatching foreigner’s bag in Vietnam's Da Nang The woman, Huynh Thi Nhan Hau, hailing from the southern province of Kien Giang, who belonged to a gang comprising seven Vietnamese female members, handed herself in on Tuesday, when she returned home from South Korea, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Huynh Phu  Khuong, from the Can Tho police department, said the same day. That gang had committed 52 robberies in many localities in southern Vietnam, including Ho Chi Minh City, and appropriated more than VND1 billion (US$46,900) before they were broken up in 2008, Khuong said. While all the other gang members were arrested, Hau got married to a South Korean man the same year and then left Vietnam for South Korea, the official said, adding that Can Tho police put Hau on the wanted list in January 2009.

Encouraged by local police, Hau’s family advised her to return to Vietnam and turn herself in for clemency. Hau then followed suit, Khuong said. The gang was led by Nghiem Xuan Thao Ly, who lured men to have sex in hotels with her accomplices, including Hau, in order to steal their property after anesthetizing them. In 2006, Hau and Ly drugged D.V. D., the owner of a hotel in the south-central city of Phan Thiet and stole from him a gold ring with a diamond in it, a gold-coated watch, a mobile phone, and VND600,000 ($28) in cash. Hau had mixed a kind of anesthetic into a glass of milk and offered it to D., who drank the glass up, police said. The same year, Hau got acquainted with a monk, named H., at a pagoda in the southern province of Kien Giang after seeing him wear a large gold necklace. Hau later phoned H., asking him to have sex with her in a hotel room where she was staying. When the monk came, H. offered him a glass of milk coffee mixed with anesthetic. After H. became unconscious, Hau stole his necklace and a Nokia phone. The anesthetic often used by the gang was Bromazepam, and its members fed each victim 6-10 tablets, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Khuong said.    

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