Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, July 22 (Cheng Jingwei, Wang Jingyi, Zhang Yitao) Guangzhou police reported on the 22nd that the city’s police, in conjunction with the Zhaoqing Sihui police, recently cracked a target project in Guangdong Province, destroyed 4 marijuana seeding, trafficking, and smoking gangs and seized them. In one large-scale cannabis plantation, 38 suspects were arrested on the spot, more than 50,000 yuan in drug money, 6.54 kg of cannabis products, and a batch of cannabis plants and seeds were seized.
According to reports, Tang (male, 50 years old) is the core figure of the project. He often travels between Guangzhou and Sihui in the early hours of the morning, and every time he returns to Guangzhou from Sihui, he brings back some "goods". On May 13 this year, Tang drove to Sihui again. This time, the task force decided to follow Tang in secret until the entrance of Sihuiyi farmland. The farmland is remote, and the road into the field is very narrow, only about one person wide. In order not to expose the target, the task force used police drones for aerial surveillance.
According to the real-time video data returned by the drone, the task force has a clear grasp of the whole picture of the farmland: the farmland is very large, surrounded by fish ponds and half-high plants, hidden in the farmland, there are 7 planting greenhouses. , There are many cannabis plants. Later, it was verified that the planter Liu (male, 48 years old) lived in the farmland and mastered the technology of growing hemp.
After nearly two months of investigation, the task force finally identified a huge drug trafficking network that integrates cultivation, sales, and smoking of marijuana. The network is closely related but has a distinct hierarchy. It is divided into planters-first-level distributors-second-level distributors-smokers.
From May 26 to 27, Guangzhou police arrested 11 suspects in Yuexiu, Liwan, and Haizhu districts, and seized 0.1 kg of cannabis products on the spot. On the evening of May 31, the Guangzhou Police and the Fourth Session of the Police carried out a net-recovery operation. They arrested Tang and Li (male, 34 years old) who were dealing in drugs in Liwan District, Guangzhou, and seized 1.14 kilograms of cannabis products on the spot, and subsequently arrested Zou. Some 11 suspects; that night, 5.3 kilograms of cannabis products were seized at the cannabis plantation in Sihui, Zhaoqing, a batch of cannabis plants and seeds were seized, and Liu, a cannabis planter, was arrested on the highway from Sihui to Guangzhou. As of June 22, 38 suspects were arrested. (Finish)