On Sunday, the Drug-related Crime Investigation Division of the Da Nang Department of Police successfully broke up a large-scale drugs ring which was led by 43-year-old Pham Thi Nga from Lang Son Province.

At 8.30am on Sunday, Nga was unloading her luggage from a coach at the city’s coach station when she was questioned by local police officers.  She was charged with illegal drug transportation after the local police had found and seized 2,340 ecstasy tablets in her luggage.  By then, 140 grams of methamphetamine had also been found at the Honey Hotel on Da Nang’s Ngo Quyen Street, which is owned by Ms Nga.

The seized ecstasy tablets

In addition, 2kg of methamphetamine were also found at a pre-school in Son Tra District which was owned by Nga’s daughter, Pham Thi Bich Phuong.  The drugs had been hidden in some cans of foreign-made formula milk.

Soon after, local police officers searched Nga’s home at 67 Cao Son Phao Street for further drugs-related items.  Papers relating to the illicit trade in drugs, along with an electric rifle and 7 machetes, were discovered and seized by the local police.

The case is under further investigation.