HANOI, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Police of Vietnam's northern Son La province have detained a local woman for transporting two cakes of heroin, 0.8 kg of crystal methamphetamine and over 1,900 pills of lab-made drug, Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The police caught red-handed the 40-year-old woman named Vi Thi Thanh Huong from northern Lang Son province transporting the drug on Tuesday. The trafficker confessed that she had bought the drug from a stranger man in Son La and planned to transport it to the capital city of Hanoi for resale.
According to the Vietnamese law, those convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kg of methamphetamine are punishable by death. Making or trading 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal drugs also faces death penalty.
