The moment of life and death opened fire to catch wanted criminals

The Southern Task Force of the Wanted Division, searching for the Criminal Police Department (Room 10, C02) received a request for assistance. arrest Vu Huu Tan36 years old, residing in Hoc Mon district, HCMC, in early January.

Lieutenant Colonel Truong and Captain Nguyen Viet Dung were assigned this task by the leaders of Division 10. The initial clues about Tan were almost “zero” when he lived wandering, the number of contacts with relatives, wife and children was only “counted on the fingers”.

According to the case file, in 2017, while defending a friend in a personal dispute resolution case, Tan assaulted a victim with a wooden stick, causing 39% damage to his health. A year later, Tan was sentenced to 4 years in prison by the People’s Court of Hoc Mon district for the crime Deliberately inflicting injury. At this point, he is out on bail.

When the court’s decision took effect, Tan fled the area. The search failed, on July 2, 2019, the criminal judgment execution agency of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department issued a nationwide arrest warrant for this man.

Patchwork of collected data, the task force set up Tan’s basic escape route. Accordingly, he drove a long-distance rental car to make a living, did not live in a fixed place, but mainly stayed in the provinces around Ho Chi Minh City because his relatives, friends and social relationships were here.

When it was discovered that Tan had secretly visited his parents and children several times in Hoc Mon district, the task force coordinated with the authorities and his family to lobby him to surrender but failed. Another time, the scout suspected Tan appeared in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City, but when he moved closer to the place, he lost track.

At noon on May 1, a reconnaissance source reported that it was “highly likely” that Tan was going back to his hometown in Tan Thoi Nhi commune, Hoc Mon district to eat and drink and fight cocks. Even though it was a holiday, scouts Truong and Dung immediately set off.

“Anyway, we have to catch him today,” Truong said to Dung. Two scouts wearing plain clothes, carrying pistols, walked around the alleys around Tan Thoi Nhi area. This is a complex area, gathering many people with criminal records, criminal records, drug addiction. Therefore, everything must be careful because if you act hastily, the plan will be “broken”.

Near 3pm on the same day, two scouts discovered a man like Tan riding a motorbike without a helmet moving on canal 1, Tan Thoi Nhi commune. After a few checks, the brothers determined that it was Tan, so they decided to “take off”.

At the beginning of Channel 2, seeing that Tan had just stopped the car, Lieutenant Colonel Truong jumped up to block his head and ordered: “Criminal police here, please obey”. At the same time, Captain Dung jumped off the motorbike and locked Tan’s left hand with handcuffs number 8.

With a strong physique, 1m83 tall, weighing more than 80 kg, Tan kicked a motorbike on top of two policemen. When he tried to run away, Truong grabbed the handcuffs of number 8 and pulled him back. “Tan turned around and kicked my leg again. At this time, clearly feeling the broken ankle of my right foot, I braced myself with the handcuffs of No. 8 and pulled him back, not letting him escape,” said Lieutenant Colonel Truong. .

He said, seeing two policemen with broken legs and injuries, Tan fought even more fiercely. Captain Dung had to draw his gun and shoot at Thien Thi Uy.

“Shoot me to death, I won’t give up”, Tan shouted and ran, dragging Lieutenant Colonel Truong on the black macadam road. While running, Tan shouted “help me, save me” echoing to the other side of the canal thanks to a group of friends gathered to fight cocks to help.

The crowd rushed, Captain Dung immediately raised his gun to stand in front to protect Lieutenant Colonel Truong who was hugging Tan behind. The two scouts said they had repeatedly advised and explained that “the officers of the Criminal Police Department are arresting the wanted object”. However, some people still use bricks to attack and intend to rush to the rescue. The more Tan tried to struggle to run away.

Faced with this situation, Lieutenant Colonel Truong pulled out a handgun and shot a warning shot at Tan’s leg, then held his body tight, pulled his right hand into handcuffs No. 8. Locked in both hands, Tan still struggled to resist and only yielded when the blood flowed. too much flow makes you weak.

A few minutes later, the Tan Thoi Nhi Commune Police were present to assist in dispersing the group of young people, taking the two policemen and the suspect to the hospital for emergency.

Lying on the ambulance, Mr. Truong was drenched in sweat, his clothes were tattered, his right leg “wouldn’t be lifted”, but he still told his teammates not to let Tan escape. After a while, he fainted from exhaustion.

After a bone graft surgery that lasted more than 5 hours, Mr. Truong woke up in bed with his right leg in a cast. More than 15 years of working with the profession, Lieutenant Colonel Truong said that Tan is not the most wanted criminal he has ever faced, but he is a “super strong”, reckless and seemingly “not even afraid of death”.

Currently, Truong takes about a year to get his nails removed to return to a normal life. Captain Dung has been discharged from the hospital but needs time to recover from injuries to the back of his right hand, leg and knee.

Colonel Tran Ngoc Cuong, Head of the Wanting and Tracing Department, said that unlike economic and environmental crimes, wanted criminals are often very active and find ways to oppose. Therefore, criminal reconnaissance always faces many dangers.

Truong and Dung are typical faces who are always ready to “fight” to hunt down wanted criminals. In the first five months of this year, the Department arrested 64 wanted people, including 18 particularly dangerous cases, 9 cases with Interpol’s international wanted orders.

Pham Du