Drug dealers were recently prosecuted by the authorities, the Shenzhen Evening News reported.
A man who was identified as Ah Qiang was one of the drug dealers who stood trial.
Ah Qiang was captured by the police in Nanshan District in June last year when he and his accomplices were selling39 kg of marijuana they had grown.
Ah Qiang was lured by a man he met in2016 called Brother Fa to plant marijuana when he was doing vegetable business in Beijing.
Brother Fa offered to cover Ah Qiang’s rent cost for the place to grow the marijuana. Brother Fa also promised to pay Ah Qiang3,000 yuan (US$435.50) per kilogram of mature marijuana.
Getting bored with his low-paying vegetable business, Ah Qiang decided to go back to his hometown in Hebei Province and invited his friend surnamed Wu to help grow the herbs.
When the crop was ready, Ah Qiang requested his brother-in-law to transport marijuana to Shenzhen by car.
Ah Qiang was caught by Shenzhen police the fourth time he sent the drug to its destination in Shenzhen. Ah Qiang, Brother Fa and five other accomplices were prosecuted for illegally transporting and dealing drugs.
Another man, called Xiaoliu, was also found secretly planting marijuana in a rented apartment in Shenzhen but was only administratively detained by the police as his actions did not constitute a crime based on laws.
Xiaoliu returned to the business after being released. In this case, he was sentenced to four months in prison with a fine of2,000 yuan.
A drug manufacturing site housing a string of equipment and chemicals such as vacuum pumps, red phosphorus and sulfuric acid was busted in a residential compound in Bao’an District, according to the report.
Fourteen bottles of drugs weighing over8 kg in total were seized. A suspect identified as Ah Jun pleaded guilty.