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Article: Beijing police cracking largest ever drug case
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 7, 2002
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Beijing police cracking largest ever drug caseBEIJING, Aug. 7
(Xinhua) -- Beijing police have broken a major drug production and
trafficking ring, arresting 13 suspects and seizing more than 100 kg
of narcotics, two handguns and a good sum of money.
This was the largest drug case cracked in the Chinese capital
since the founding of new China in 1949, a police spokesperson
announced Wednesday.
The drugs seized included over 100 kg of ketamine and 1.1 kg of
deoxidized ephedrine, better known by its popular name of "ice",