The Anti-Drug Department police arrested a Laotian man and confiscated almost 10kg of drugs while he was transporting them into Cambodia. The operation was carried out in cooperation with the Stung Treng provincial anti-drug police. The arrest was made by authorities on February 13 in a forest corridor in the province’s Borei O’Svay Senchey district.
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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.