Police arrested three suspected drug traffickers and seized nearly 160 kilogrammes of ice in Phnom Penh


Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

Police from the Ministry of Interior’s Anti-Drug Department on October 25 arrested three suspected drug traffickers and seized nearly 160 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine in the capital’s Daun Penh district.

Anti-Drug Police Officer Major Nuon Bunnarith said that the men, a Laotian, Vietamese and Cambodian, were arrested at about 4pm in the district’s Psar Thmey I commune.

Maj Bunnarith that they were arrested after they had transported the drugs by a taxi from the Cambodian-Laotian border in Stung Treng province to Phnom Penh in order to stock up at their rental house and distribute to users in the capital. 

He said that after their arrest, police seized 160 big packages of crystal methamphetamine weighing nearly 160 kilogrammes from them. 

“They are still being temporarily detained at the Ministry of Interior for questioning and further investigation to find out about other traffickers in their group,” Maj Bunnarith said. “They will be sent to the court for questioning after police have completed their questioning and further investigations.”

He added that the trios are accused of “drug transport and trafficking” under Article 40 of the Cambodian Law on Drugs Control.

 If convicted, they face a life term in prison each.

 


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