Officer gets death for drug crimes

CHONGQING - A court on Monday handed down the death penalty to the former deputy head of the anti-narcotics efforts in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality.

Luo Li, a former deputy chief of the anti-drug brigade of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, was found guilty on charges of murder, graft and drug trafficking.

According to a statement from the No 1 Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing, he had been collaborating with drug dealers in Chongqing since 2005.