Police in southwest China's
Yunnan Province have seized 133.767 kg of heroin, and arrested
five suspects in the case.
Officers with the border police of Baoshan City said that they
detected 102.696 kg of heroin inside the steel pipe handrails of a
truck on November 12 at a border checkpoint, where they arrested
two suspects.
The suspects confessed that the heroin was to be delivered to a man
identified as Zhong in Guangzhou City, in neighboring Guangdong
Province.
On
November 20, Zhong was arrested at a parking lot in Guangzhou as he
was waiting to take over the goods.
Acting on information from Zhong, the police nabbed two more
suspects in a Guangzhou hotel on November 24, who were there to
deliver 31.071 kg of heroin to Zhong.
(Xinhua News
Agency December 12, 2001)