Police in central China's Hubei Province have seized nearly 300 kg of ketamine and detained 12 suspects for making and selling the drugs in their latest crackdown.
The drug ring was operating out of a deserted poultry farm and deflected suspicion by claiming to be processing medicine, the public security bureau of Xishui County said Saturday.
The investigation that uncovered the ring took more than three months, the bureau said.
The case is still under investigation.
In southwest China's Yunnan Province, police seized 25 kg of drugs during a two-week anti-drug trafficking campaign .
On May 18, police seized nearly 7 kg of methamphetamine dropped by a man who jumped into a border river after realizing that police were looking for him.
On May 19, 18.52 kg of heroin was confiscated from two smugglers who disposed of the drugs before fleeing.
Under the country's Criminal Law, smuggling, trafficking, transporting or producing 50 grams or more of heroin is punishable by 15 years in jail, life imprisonment or the death penalty.
In 2012, police cracked 120,000 drug-related cases and arrested 130,000 suspects, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
Police confiscated 7.3 tonnes of heroin, 16.2 tonnes of methamphetamine, 4.7 tonnes of ketamine and more than 5,800 tonnes of chemical agents used to make drugs last year.
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