8 foreigners detained for drug offences
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EIGHT foreign nationals were detained in Beijing last month on suspicion of drug use and trafficking, police in the capital said yesterday.
The suspects were apprehended in a raid on an international school in the city’s Chaoyang District, conducted after police received a tip-off.
More than 37 grams of narcotics — including methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana — were seized from three suspects, who are from the United States, Sierra Leone and Mali. The other five are from New Zealand and the US.
The other five suspects, from New Zealand and the United States, have been detained for drug-taking and providing a venue for other drug users, according to police.
Six of the eight suspects tested positive for marijuana, and all of them confessed their offenses, police said.
Drug trafficking is a felony in China. Those convicted of trafficking more than 50 grams of heroin can face capital punishment.
On Thursday, a man from New Zealand went on trial at the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court on charges of smuggling millions of dollars worth of drugs out of China.
Chinese police arrested Peter Gardner, 26, at Guangzhou Airport on November 8 last year. They said he was carrying bags with nearly 30 kilograms of methamphetamine or “ice.”
Customs officials put the market value of the drugs at several million dollars.
Gardner said he came to China to buy several kilograms of a muscle-building supplement, “but I didn’t check the parcel after I got the delivery,” he told the court.
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