Hanoi police’s Y5/141 task force caught a man holding drugs and weapons at his home and broke up a cannabis-selling point in an ATV news bulletin on 6 November 2026.[1][2] The bulletin also links to a video of the Y5/141 task force catching a man in the act of keeping drugs and weapons at his house.[1]

Y5/141 is one of the numbered patrol teams that the Hanoi City Police fields.[1] The case was carried in the ATV bulletin, An ninh Thủ đô’s television news programme, on 6 November 2026.[1]

The task force was on duty on Trường Chinh street when its officers spotted two young men showing signs of drug involvement.[3][4] The people and the exhibits were handed to Nghĩa Đô ward police for further investigation, and no charges have been reported.[5] Police then identified two regular customers of B., B.K.Đ. of Tây Hồ ward and K.D. of Ngọc Hà ward, and arrested them too.[5] B. told police he bought the cannabis for his own use and to sell on in small amounts, and that from about September 2026 he had made more than 10 million dong from selling it.[5] At that address officers seized about 48 grams of cannabis in a plastic bag, a digital scale, a homemade long knife and a butterfly knife.[5] One of the two, N.K.B., born in 2007 and living in Nghĩa Đô ward, admitted he was keeping cannabis at his home in ngõ 79 Dương Quảng Hàm, Nghĩa Đô ward.[5] Officers stopped the motorcycle at the Trường Chinh – Tôn Thất Tùng – Lê Trọng Tấn junction in Kim Liên ward at about 12:30 am on 5 November 2026.[5] Working from that stop, the officers broke up a group that sold cannabis and kept weapons, and arrested one more person who had bought drugs.[3] The Hanoi On television account says the patrol was a night operation that found and broke up a group trading illegal narcotics.[2]