In a particularly inventive and geographically-suitable drug smuggling case, Hong Kong’s Customs authority has announced that a 37-year-old woman was arrested this week trying to sneak five kilograms of (suspected) methamphetamine worth HKD2.24 million into the territory in three rice cookers.
She was intercepted at Shenzhen Bay Control Point on Wednesday, with further investigations resulting in the arrest of a 59-year-old man, also expected to be involved in the plot, in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Both have been detained on drug trafficking charges, which carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and a fine of HKD5 million.
It just ain’t rice. Sorry, that’s the best we’ve got.
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