Police have arrested 11 members of a cartel that has been running drugs from Guangdong province to Shanghai and nearby areas.
Police also confiscated 7.7 kilograms (17 lb) of methamphetamine, 445,000 yuan ($72,400) in cash and 260 capsules of magu (a combo of meth and caffeine) during the bust.
The majority of the suspects are Shanghai natives. The suspects bought the meth in Guangdong province for around 80 yuan ($13) per gram and then resold it in Shanghai and Jiangsu province for 500 to 550 yuan ($81-89) per gram.
Police arrested a 59 year old man, surnamed Fu, on November 4 at a railway station in Hangzhou, Jiangsu province. A patrol officer stopped Fu in order to check his identification, found he had a history of drug use, searched him, and subsequently discovered 27 packages of meth in his bag and pockets. Fu reportedly said he bought the drug from another dealer.
On investigating Fu, police discovered an inter-provincial drug trafficking network. The group transported the drugs on long-distance buses from Guangdong to Shanghai, where they were to be distributed to different levels of middlemen and drug dealers.
Wu, a Guangdong native who is suspected to be responsible for transporting the drugs, rented an apartment in Huangpu district to serve as a storage facility. Wu used a counterfeit passport to sign the lease and did not live in the apartment in order to protect himself from the police.
To no avail, police arrested Wu on December 12. They found a gun, six bullets and a large amount of methamphetamine in the apartment. They also arrested two Shanghai natives, surnamed Shi and Yang, who served as middlemen and distributed the drugs to dealers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. According to police, the two men met in prison 19 years ago when Yang was serving time for robbery and Shi for drug trafficking.
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