While being chased by police, a group of suspected dog thieves lost control of their car, which plunged into a ditch, forcing them to abandon the vehicle and escape.

A driver in HCMC rammed his seven-seat car into the motorbike of two men carrying a bag containing multiple dogs that had been tasered and stolen.

A man ran down two suspected dog thieves with his car in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, killing one of them.

Huynh Thanh Hai, 44, was shot dead with a homemade stun gun as he tried to apprehend dog thieves who’d just shot his pet dead.

14 dogs and six electric guns were found in the back of a car after Binh Duong police stopped two men Tuesday morning.

Police in central Nghe An Province have caught two knife-wielding dog thieves, currently facing criminal charges.

Dog thieves and dog owners have been locked in a murderous cycle of violence in recent years in Vietnam, especially in rural areas.

A Hanoi court Friday jailed two dog thieves and gave a suspended sentence to a buyer of the stolen dog.

Police in Nghe An Province have arrested two men who’d stolen at least 11 canines before they were caught.

A court in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh has sent two dog thieves and a man who bought their dogs to jail.

One is detained under resistance charges while another has been put into a rehab center after positive drug test result.

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Many Vietnamese people insist on violence to find justice for their kidnapped dogs.

The police officer was seriously injured during the midnight chase.

Stun-gunned, stuffed in plastics bags and then sent to the butchers for a gruesome end.