Cambodia arrests U.S. man, local helper for trafficking almost 43 kg of drug

PHNOM PENH, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's anti-drug police have arrested an American national and his Cambodian accomplice for allegedly trafficking almost 43 kg of drug, the National Police reported on Saturday. The duo, a 33-year-old U.S. man and a 29-year-old Cambodian man, were caught on March 6 at two locations in capital Phnom Penh.

"A total of 42.7 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine (ice) was confiscated from them during the raids," the National Police said on its website. The southeast Asian nation has no death sentence for drug traffickers. Under its law, someone found guilty of trafficking over 80 grams of illicit drugs could be imprisoned for life.

According to the kingdom's Anti-Drug Police Department (ADP), in 2021, the authorities nabbed a total of 13,765 drug suspects in 6,242 cases throughout the country, seizing 4.43 tons of illicit drugs, mostly ice, heroin, and ecstasy.

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