Hong Kong authorities have arrested two men over a drug bust involving HK$32 million (US$4.1 million) in crystal meth stashed into child car seats shipped from Cambodia.
Acting on an intelligence report received last month, customs officials inspected a batch of 51 car seats, 31 of which had drugs hidden in them, at a container depot in Yuen Long on Feb. 18.
The seats were transported in nine trucks to different parts of the city, including Tsuen Wan, a carpark in Ma Liu Shui, in Tai Po, and a container depot in Tsing Yi, the convoluted routing ostensibly to throw off law enforcement.
Eventually, the drug trafficking syndicate brought the seats to an industrial building in Kwun Tong, where officers arrested a 22-year-old man who was moving one of the boxes on Sunday.
Police also apprehended a 33-year-old man who owns the company that the car seats were mailed to from Cambodia. Both suspects face charges of trafficking a dangerous drug, and could face a maximum penalty of life imprisonment if convicted.
Authorities said the traffickers demonstrated familiarity with transport and logistics in the city, and that the drugs appeared to be intended for local use.
Last month, customs officials in the United States intercepted a shipment of boxes of cocaine-coated cereal that were bound for Hong Kong. No arrests have been made locally.
