Female trafficker of 6 heroin cakes arrested in Tay Ninh
(VOV) - Border guards in the southern province of Tay Ninh has caught a woman in the act of transporting six cakes of heroin from Cambodia into Vietnam.
Six cakes of heroin hidden in a carton box of shrimp noodle were found in Nguyen Thi Be’s luggage when she was clearing customs procedures at Moc Bai international border gate.
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Nguyen Thi Be, born in 1958 in Go Dau district, Tay Ninh province, admitted that she was hired to transport six heroin cakes from Cambodia to Vietnam via the border gate. She took a bus from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City and got out of the bus when it approached the borderline. Be then took a motorbike taxi to Moc Bai border gate where she was seized for illegally transporting six heroin cakes on January 5.
Local police officers on January 6 ransacked her house, and are now conducting further investigation into the case.