The deputy police chief of the provincial bureau for combating economic crime said “Police and forestry official stopped the car on Monday night, but the drivers and his partners jumped out of the car and escaped in O’Yadav district, Ratanakiri”. They followed the car and try to interrupt them but they ran away and left the car with wild animals in the place. He added “This car is probably going toward to Vietnam and offer the wild animal there for sale”

However, they did not know how many people escaped from vehicle because it was at night, but they could only confiscated wild animals and the car. Those wild animals included turtles, snakes, civets and lizards with a collective weight around 354 kilograms. Furthermore, suspects could not be named but police officers had been trying to find the owner of the car so that it would give them light to arrest the committer.

“The wild animals that we confiscated were kept at the police station for whole night, but we plan to release them in the north of province on Tuesday evening with safe place and natural forest”, said by Vong Sok Serey, director of the provincial forestry department. However, over the last year, provincial officers had arrested many people who caught wild animals in illegal way but this is the first event of 2010 that led the suspects escaped.

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