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)