HO CHI MINH CITY, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's police on Friday uncovered three drug trafficking cases and arrested three people, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Police in Ho Chi Minh City solved two drug trafficking cases and arrested two people for illegal trading and stockpiling of ecstasy, heroin and ketamine.

The arrested were Nguyen Van Toan, born in 1977, and Nguyen Thi Ngoc Ha, born in 1981, and both reside in Ho Chi Minh City.

Toan was caught red-handed with 13,000 ecstasy pills and 0.5 kg of ketamine wrapped as coffee packs. According to the police, he bought the drug from Cambodia to sell in Vietnam.

Meanwhile, Ha was nabbed with two cakes of heroin weighing 700 grams. Searching her house in Go Vap district and workshop in southern Binh Duong province, police seized 10 kg of heroin.

Also on Friday, border guards in central Ha Tinh province caught red-handed Nguyen Nhu Ba, born in 1975 in central Nghe An province, for transporting 8,000 tablets of synthetic drugs. Ba said he was hired to transport the drug from the border area.

According to the Vietnamese law, those convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kg of methamphetamine are punishable by death. Making or trading 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal drugs also faces death penalty.