HCMC bookstore kidnapper indicted

Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District police have issued an indictment against Voong Hung Minh, 27, who was subdued after keeping hostage a female employee at scissor point at a local bookstore on Tuesday.

Minh, from southern Dong Nai province, is facing charges of “threatening to kill others,” according to the prosecution warrant signed by Lieutenant Colonel Le Hoang Chau yesterday.

Minh is a drug addict and was once sentenced to five years in prison for robbery. He was released after serving his sentence in June last year.

Minh committed a new crime on March 15, when he ran into Phuong Nam Bookstore located inside the MaxiMark supermarket and used a scissor and kept hostage Ngau Ngoc Lan, 29, a female employee at the bookstore.

Local police and emergency police 113 persuaded Minh to surrender and release his hostage, but he turned down the police’s order. Instead, he said he wanted a taxi to leave the bookstore with his hostage.

An undercover policeman dressed in a taxi driver uniform rode a taxi to the scene, and when Minh and his hostage got in the car, the 'driver' used an electrical baton to strike him and seize him.

As a drug addict, Minh told police he had a delusion that an underworld gang was chasing and trying to kill him.

Therefore, he deliberately caused such a disturbance with a hope that police could come to the scene and thereby saved him from the gang.

source: Tuoitrenews

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