Many Taiwan suspects netted in narcotics bust

Guangdong police seized more than 700 kilograms of methamphetamine and arrested 28 suspects - more than half of them from Taiwan - in a joint operation with authorities from Fujian province and Taiwan aimed at drug smuggling.

The suspects used a fake courier company in Dongguan as a cover for storing the drugs. They had planned to smuggle the drugs to the Philippines by sea but failed, the police said. The smugglers then used cars to transfer the drugs from ports to the company, where they were caught on Feb 28.

A suspect drove a car to the company, but instead of parking it outside, as on previous occasions, the suspect parked it inside the company warehouse.