Border police in south China's Guangdong Province said Monday that their largest case last year involved the seizure of 238 kg of drugs and the arrest of five suspected drug traffickers.

The drugs included ketamine, cocaine, heroin, ice, marijuana, methamphetamine and ecstasy. It's the biggest case uncovered by China's border police in 2007.

The border police caught two suspected drug traffickers named "A Biao" and "A Wen" when they were trading in a car at 2 p.m. on Nov. 2 and captured two bars of heroin which weighed 1.6 kg.

In A Biao's house, the police found 213 kg ketamine, 4 kg cocaine, 9 kg Magu, 8 kg ecstasy, 2 kg marijuana, 340 grams of heroin, 150 grams of ice and an artificial gun.

The police then found 5.7 kg Magu, a methamphetamine similar to ice, in a safe in the house of A Wen, a foreign suspect. The police didn't disclose which country he was from.

The police caught another suspect on Nov. 3 and two suspects on Nov. 11 when they were buying drugs from A Biao.

Police officials said in mid-January that Chinese border police had cracked 12,449 criminal cases in 2007 including drug, arms and human trafficking, as well as smuggling.

They also dealt with 37,603 minor public security offenses.

Border police, or the Frontier Defense Force (FDF), cracked 3,071 drug smuggling cases and seized a variety of banned substances with a total weight of 2,368 kilograms. They also broke up 46 gun trafficking cases and seized 1,085 weapons and more than 20,000 bullets.

The FDF also dealt with 1,496 human trafficking cases involving 3,000 people and arrested 425 criminal suspects. Border police cracked 1,702 smuggling cases involving 431 million yuan (about 59 million U.S. dollars) in illicit funds.

(Xinhua News Agency February 26, 2008)