Police seize 13 heroin bricks from drug dealer

Police of northern Nam Dinh province on October 31 arrested a 44-year-old man named Mai Quynh Tho, a resident of the Viet Hung commune, and seized 13 bricks of heroin from him.

Tho was caught while he was carrying five heroin bricks. The police found eight more bricks buried in his garden.

Director of the Police Department Bui Quyet Toan said that Tho was the leader of a gang that transported drugs from Son La and Hoa Binh to the Nam Dinh province.

The gang reportedly transported 10 to 20 heroin bricks during each trip. Toan added that Tho had been jailed once for "illegal dealing in and the transport of drugs".

The police are making further investigations in the case.

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