Wife of Cambodian Officer Arrested

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Police arrested the wife of a highranking
military officer after finding nearly 10 pounds of heroin worth $1.2 million
in her home.

The woman was arrested Friday night after a yearlong investigation, Heng Pao,
chief of the municipal antidrug police, said Saturday. Her name was not
released.

``The woman reported that she got the heroin from a military general who had
long been involved in the drug business,'' Heng Pao said. He said the heroin
had been smuggled into Cambodia from Thailand.

Although Cambodia is not a heroin producer, the United States has labeled it
as a major transit point for drug shipments heading to other countries, due
in part to general lawlessness following two decades of civil war.

International narcotics agents have long suspected official complicity in
Cambodia's drug trade.