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Vietnamese Arrested for Mailing Skull
Vietnamese Police Arrest Two Men for
Shipping Human Skull to United
States
HANOI, Vietnam Jul
18, 2005 — Police arrested two men in southern Vietnam for allegedly attempting to send a human
skull to a relative in the United
States to be used as a prayer idol,
state-controlled media reported Monday.
Doan Ngoc Phang, 37 and Huynh Thai Son, 49, were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City on
Sunday and accused of "encroaching on graves and remains," the Ho Chi
Minh City Law newspaper said.
The case was uncovered last week when customs officials found the skull
stuffed in a plaster bust. Phang said he paid Son 1.6 million dong (US$100) for
the skull, which he tried to send to a relative in California who wanted to use it to pray for
prosperity, according to the paper.
Police are investigating where Son got the skull, the paper said.
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