Friday, August 03, 2007

Drug bust in the middle of the capital

Friday, August 3, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

A drug lab located in Phnom Penh city was busted by the military police which also arrested one of the drug ring leader, and confiscated a drug production machine, and $100,000 fake money. According to local newspapers, the bust took place at 4:40 AM on 01 August near the Holiday club, located on Street No. 65, Srah Chak commune, Daun Penh district. The bust also led to the arrest of Lam Sokheng, a 31-year-old male. Following his arrest, the authority also searched 2 other locations: one in Tuol Kork district, and the other in Dangkao district. A car, a handgun, 9 bullets, 870 yama (amphetamine) pills, a number of white powder drug substance, a machine to manufacture the yama drug, as well as $95,000 in fake money were confiscated by the police. Based on the questioning of Lam Sokheng, the latter indicated that he and his gang are trading drugs since 2005, and the modern machine to manufacture yama was recently imported from overseas about 1 month ago only.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow!!!
These guys must have very powerful people behind them. They will be released soon, trust me.

Anonymous said...

Does everyone remember Heng Peov's statement in court about the fake money?

Anonymous said...

This is only a show that they did something to fight drugs; the truth is drugs being dealt by the mother fucker families in the government.