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Scoring to get harder for S’ville truckers

| Publication date 24 August 2016 | 06:56 ICT

Scoring to get harder for S’ville truckers

The streets – and highways – of Cambodia are a little safer after a Sihanoukville motodop was arrested on Monday evening for drug dealing after police discovered 22 small bags of meth on his person.

The suspect immediately spilled the beans on his criminal enterprise, claiming to have been in the “profession” for the past six months, and that many of his clientele were truck drivers with a penchant for hitting the pipe before the road.

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Contact author: Bun Sengkong

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