‘Decorator’ drug ring busted

WUHAN: A drug gang posing as home decorators have been caught manufacturing drugs in apartments in Central China’s Hubei province.

Police with the public security bureau of Wuhan, Hubei’s capital city, raided three workshops manufacturing drugs in late August, seizing 13 suspects, according to a statement released by local police yesterday.

The police confiscated more than 20kg of yaba (methamphet- amine mixed with caffeine), 20kg of drug materials, drug-making equipment, two grenades, four pistols and several imitation pistols and bullets.

As the drug-making equipment was very noisy, the gang usually hid the machine in new neighbourhoods that had many decoration teams.

They also set up a shockabsorption device on the bottom of the machine. — China Daily/ Asia News Network