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Drug confiscations, arrests up on last year, official says

The Interior Ministry’s anti-drug trafficking department announced on Friday that it has confiscated more than 87 kg of hard drugs and 1.5 tons of marijuana in the first nine months of the year, a sharp increase compared to the same period last year. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-confiscations-arrests-up-on-last-year-official-says-93524/

Drug users arrested in raid sent to rehab

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday charged just 11 of the 88 people arrested on Friday during a sweeping raid of a drug-riddled ghetto in Sen Sok district’s Toek Thla commune, sending the remaining 77 to the city’s Orkas Knhom drug rehabilitation center, police ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-users-arrested-in-raid-sent-to-rehab-92534/

Police show off Marijuana haul, smugglers

Three members of an alleged international drug syndicate and more than 1 ton of marijuana they are accused of importing from Laos were on Tuesday paraded before reporters during a press conference at the National Police headquarters in Phnom Penh. ...

Khy Sovuthy and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-show-off-marijuana-haul-smugglers-92531/

Smugglers busted on Laos border

Three Cambodians were among 11 people captured in Laos for allegedly smuggling methamphetamine in a joint operation carried out by Cambodian and Laotian anti-drugs police. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/smugglers-busted-laos-border

Drug arrests up, seizures on decline

The number of drug arrests, including those of foreign nationals, is up this year, but total drug seizures are barely over a third of what they were last year, say the National Police. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/drug-arrests-seizures-decline

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