Stung Treng provincial anti-drug trafficking police are set to send two Laotians to the provincial court on January 18 for allegedly trafficking 46kg of illegal drugs.
Provincial Anti-Drug Bureau chief Chem Phanith said the two Laotian men aged 28 and 29 were arrested in the early hours of January 15 at a border checkpoint in Borei O’Svay Sen Chey district’s O’Svay commune. Police searched them and discovered 46 packages of methamphetamines weighing a total of 46kg.
“They will be sent to the provincial court on Monday morning [January 18] to begin legal proceedings,” he said.
According to Phanith, a group of six people are suspected of being involved in the case, but four of them managed to escape into Laos when they were stopped by the border police that night.