Police arrested four men in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district on Sunday on suspicion of smuggling drugs from Laos, confiscating more than half a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine in the bust, officials said Monday.
Sann Sothy, deputy chief of the Interior Ministry’s anti-drug bureau, said that police followed the four suspects for most of Sunday, before arresting them at about 5 p.m. in front of a gas station on National Road 1 and seizing 784 grams of the drug.
“We have spent three days [on this case], since we got news from our anti-drug police at the Cambodia-Laos border and learned their identities,” he said.
According to Mr. Sothy, the group was identified by police at the border in Stung Treng province as being possible members of a new drug smuggling ring between Laos and Phnom Penh.
Mr. Sothy said that one of the arrested men was released, while three others—Suon Lenin, 34; Lun Sopha, 49; and Muth Thim, 38—will be sent today to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to face charges.
