14 caught using drugs in southern province of Dong Nai

By Phuoc Tuan   December 4, 2022 | 01:18 am PT
14 caught using drugs in southern province of Dong Nai
People were seen at Kosho bar in Dong Nai Province as police raid it for drugs on December 4, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Thai Ha
14 people tested positive for drugs after police raided the Kosho bar in Dong Nai Province early Sunday.

200 people were in the bar when the raid happened. Many customers tried to escape but failed. Police found many packages containing a white substance that they suspect is a banned drug.

Tran Tin Phu was arrested for carry drugs at Kosho bar in Dong Nai Province. Photo by Thai Ha

Tran Tin Phu is arrested for carry drugs at Kosho bar in Dong Nai Province. Photo by VnExpress/Thai Ha

Tran Tin Phu, 33, was arrested with two packs of methamphetamine and five ecstasy pills.

Police said that Phu usually brought drugs to the bar at night and sold them to customers in the bathrooms.

Among the 14 people who tested positive for banned drugs were three bar employees.

Sunday's raid was a part of a campaign implemented by Dong Nai police to expose locations in the province where drugs are being traded and abused.

Despite Vietnam’s tough laws against drug production and trafficking, the country has emerged as a key trafficking hub for narcotics from the Golden Triangle, an intersection of China, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar that is the world's second largest drug producing area after the Golden Crescent in South Asia.

 
 
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