Ha Giang man arrested for growing opium
A man in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang has been arrested for growing over 1,300 opium poppies on his farm.
Lu Cha Sinh is arrested by the police who also confiscate 1,390 poppies and 67.08 grams of the brown substance which is suspected as drugs from his 549-square-metre farm. Photo by Vietnamnet.
The Ha Giang Provincial Police Department announced on Thursday that they had detained Lu Cha Sinh, 51, for illegally producing drugs.
Sinh was caught red-handed on April 2 while taking the brown substance from the poppies grown on his corn farm in Yen Minh District.
Police found and confiscated 1,390 poppies and 67.08 grams of the brown substance which is suspected as drugs from his 549-square-metre farm.
Sinh has been detained while police are further investigating the case.
Last year, police in the northern province of Bac Giang also detained a local man after finding 2,154 opium poppies in his garden.
Opium is on the list of forbidden narcotics in Vietnam.
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