Online purchases led to drugs arrests
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E-mail Xinhua, September 15, 2017
Police caught 19 suspects and seized 500 kilograms of drugs and drug-making materials when they broke up a ring consisting of members from nine provinces, they said yesterday.
Detectives in Weifang, a city in east China’s Shandong Province, said they received a tip-off in July last year after residents suspected dangerous chemicals had caused the rupture of a sewage pipeline.
Police found an apartment in the community had been sold immediately after the complaints, and the former owner often used big plastic buckets to dump waste. Police suspected the waste was chemicals used to make drugs.
The bureau set up a special task force to trace the suspect, surnamed Pan, and found that he frequently made online purchases of chemical reaction vessels and detergents. He also frequently mailed goods nationwide.
Investigators confirmed that the goods were methcathinone, an amphetamine-like drug.
Police arrested Pan and another accomplice in January.
During interrogation, police learned that Pan had joined an online chat group where people could order chemicals for 10,000 yuan (US$1,525) per kg to produce drugs which they could sell for 16,000 yuan.
That information led to the arrest of the other drug makers and dealers, and raids on eight networks and five workshops.
Earlier this week, police in central China’s Hubei Province busted a drugs gang posing as decorators, catching 13 suspects.
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