Export of drugs
from live koi fish In an ordinary late autumn, someone declared to us that 20 boxes of 160 live koi fish were exported and then transferred to the airport for export. We found it very strange that someone should export this kind of live fish to the United States.
On an ordinary late autumn day, someone declared to us that 20 boxes of 160 live koi carps had been exported and then transferred to the airport for export. We found it very strange that someone should export this kind of live fish to the United States. I went to the scene to have a look, opened the cloth, all the boxes were black, I opened the box to have a look, there were small rechargeable oxygen generation equipment, Koi fish of different sizes, more large, colorful, more beautiful, but they did not seem to be very happy. After all, being transported in this way, hypoxia is bound to occur. What I didn’t know at the time was that there was a huge drug smuggling secret hidden in these koi.
I asked Jin Hui to call a freight forwarder. The boss of our largest export declaration company was Mo, who had previously acted as an agent for the export of precursor chemicals. I asked him, Who shipped these fish? Have you ever shipped before?
Boss Mo said, “Leader, the last time we hid the Chinese medicine from us, we had a lot of news.”. These fish come to our counter to declare export. We have all seen the boxes. There is no interlayer, and there are not many goods. We don’t know them. The goods come from the breeding wholesale base in the port. They also said that they were all living things and that they had to declare as soon as possible so that they could go out.
Our southwest border has a large aquaculture base, because it has fresh water and is near the sea, it has good aquaculture conditions, and many tilapia exported from China are exported here, but boss Mo is right.
I asked them to bring the whole list of goods. The principal of the export agent’s power of attorney was a person named “Lu Juanjuan”, a middle-aged woman. We had never declared the export record of this person here before. The total amount of this batch of goods was 120,000 yuan. And that day is the 11th, and the fish will be loaded into the plane to fly to the United States on the evening of the 12th. Then
I went to boss Mo and asked, “Don’t these fish need to be quarantined when they go to the United States?”? Are these fish so expensive?
He said, “We didn’t do it in the United States, so we don’t know the details. But when the goods came that day, our people asked about it. We had to go through more than 40 quarantine procedures, but the person who delivered the goods said that he had done it all and asked us to declare the customs as soon as possible.”. Moreover, if you go through the individual filing process, you don’t need to get a tax refund. If they file a higher rate, there’s no loss to the country, and we don’t violate the rules, so we let them file. Strange
things must have demons, after understanding these situations, I asked friends at other ports, also checked the information on the Internet, and found that there are really Koi exported to Europe and the United States, and the price is not cheap, some people can actually sell a fish for more than 100000, so we declare 120000 so many fish, it seems that it is not particularly many. I asked some experts in the field of customs price review, and they felt that the price was quite normal. The key is that it does not involve customs tax rebates, and the general management of exports will not be particularly strict.
I dragged my feet for another two hours. Boss Mo came to me and said, “Leader, they’re in a hurry with this batch of goods. Otherwise, they’ll let it go. It’s not a big deal.”
I called Jin Hui over and said to boss Mo, “You also find someone, and we’ll go and have a look.” The four of
us arrived at the minivan loaded with koi. I opened the box and looked at the inactive koi inside. I asked Mr. Mo, “Won’t this fish die?” Boss
Mo laughed and said to me, “Leader, I’m not in the aquatic products business. I think I’ll die, but I just charge a customs declaration fee. If these goods really die on the road, it has little to do with me.”. They must have had insurance on the way, and they delivered it to the United States three days later. It’s faster than seafood shipping in many places, so it shouldn’t be a big problem.
I looked at a fish that seemed to be dying and said to boss Mo, “You call the shipper and say that they have a box of fish that is broken and the fish are all dead. You can discuss compensation and see what they say.” Boss
Mo said with an embarrassed look on his face, “Leader, this is not very good. We won’t be able to do the living body business in the future.”
“How much is that? You’ve got so many containers, and you still want to make this little money, or else you’ll step up inspection in the future?” I scared him a little.
He immediately said, “Yes, yes, I’ll do it.”
I told boss Mo the main points, and he turned on the speakerphone and began to dial. This is not the first time he has made this kind of call. The man who answered the phone said in the vernacular, “Hello, who am I looking for?” Boss
Mo said, “I am the boss of Hengtong Trading. A few days ago, someone declared the export of some koi from us. I left this phone number. Can I tell you some questions now?” There was a little
silence, and then he said, “Yes, what’s the matter?” Boss
Mo said, “One of your 20 boxes of koi was broken. We found it in time, but five or six died. Should we throw it away or what?”? We will compensate for the loss of the goods according to the contract.
I listened carefully to the reaction from the other side. There was silence again. A voice on the phone said, “Don’t throw it away. Even if it’s dead, the Americans want it.” Boss
Mo said, “It’s too much trouble. We’ll take care of it.”
“You can’t. If the fish is dead, take it out and wrap it up separately. Someone over there will collect it.” Said on the phone. After
chatting about some unimportant information, the phone hung up. I said to boss Mo, “The boss is very witty.”
He smiled and asked me what to do. I said, “Find two dying fish and let’s check them. I’ll apply for manual inspection.”. Kill them and see what’s inside them.
He was a little surprised and said, “It’s not good if the fish is really dead.”
I said directly, “Didn’t he say it?”? Even if they really die, the Americans will want it. Boss
Mo seemed dissatisfied, but he stopped talking. I telephoned Customs Commissioner Huang, who is in charge of entry and exit supervision at our customs, and I told him my doubts. I thought there might be something in the belly of the fish, because it was too strange. Although he had some doubts, he still said to me: “You are so insistent, we will give this order open authority for manual inspection.”
I then arranged for Jin Hui to take the two koi, which were already in a bad state, to our duty room, prepare tools and plastics, put on gloves, knock a smaller fish to death, and disembowel it. The first fish did not find any problems, it was a dead fish.
Chin-hui asks, “Will you kill this fish?”
I said, “You can’t live even if you put it back. Let’s kill it together.”
We opened another big fish, and there were six crystal-like objects wrapped in plastic wrap in the belly of the fish, methamphetamine! I reacted at the first time, because I had seen too much methamphetamine. Some of the bait outside the plastic wrap has not been digested, apparently these small particles have not been swallowed by the fish for long.
I quickly took off my gloves and called the smuggling section. I said to Chief Sun, “We have found drugs smuggled out of the country. It should be methamphetamine!”! In the belly of a fish. Of course, I also informed Director Huang, who is in charge of the inspection work. Soon, many people came to us, and the drug testing box quickly told us that the plastic wrap was methamphetamine, which was very pure.
Time waits for no one, so we take out the particles of plastic wrap from the fish and deploy the next step. Soon the client’s information was found out, but the ID card had been reported lost, and after monitoring, it seemed that it was not me who went through the formalities. So Director Huang and Director Li quickly reported that they asked the carrier to contact the cargo receiver in the United States (a private aquarium company in the United States) and told them that because of the overload of the oxygen cabin and the management of living things, the plane on the evening of the 12th could not catch up, and asked the other party if it could be changed to the evening of the 13th. Originally thought that there might be a problem, did not expect the other party very readily agreed to this request, but asked to note clearly on the new bill of lading the consignee, contact address and telephone number of the United States. I was relieved to hear the news, because the delay gave us 24 hours to work, and the American consignee was not as alert as the shipper, and we judged at the time that the American consignee might not know what was hidden in the belly of the fish. When the colleagues finished this work, our port also took out all the plastic wrap particles, a total of 217, after counting a total of more than 3300 grams.
Because it involved foreign countries and because it was so carefully concealed, our leaders judged that the case might be serious. Director Li contacted the General Administration through his superiors, and the General Administration contacted the China National Central Bureau of Interpol, which quickly informed the DEA liaison in Asia. By the time the superior fed back to our front line and said that the intelligence of the US deployment and arrest work would be released, only less than two hours had passed. In my life, I have the impression that this is the most efficient government unit in the United States, until now.
Although there is no problem with the offline network, we have not found out who sent the goods, and we only have less than two days. The superior leaders helped us contact the Drug Control Bureau of the Public Security Department, and let me attend the video conference as a bystander. Office coordination of local public security, border police and we come together to find out who the real Lu Juanjuan is. In that era when there was no intelligent face recognition, the office and the superior customs arranged for us to all take up our posts, cooperate with local police stations and communities, go to the aquatic wholesale market and the breeding base located in the port, visit one by one overnight, and investigate who recently bought a large number of koi. Or prepare to deliver a large number of koi, if you buy so many boxes, or who bought a lot of live fish transit boxes, you will always find clues, of course, if someone can recognize who is the delivery person through the blurred surveillance video, it will be better; Of course, some people go through the monitoring to find the truck transporting fish to the freight yard, and then trace the source through the truck to see if they can find the real consignor. At nine o’clock in the
evening, we split up. A cadre and soldier sent to us by a frontier defense department and I went to visit the breeding area near the port.
I have never been to the aquaculture area near the port at night. I only know that shrimp and tilapia are raised here. It seems that there are many more things here than I thought. It is also an interesting scene to walk through the ponds, with the sparkling water reflecting the light of the moon on the moonlight night, and the dim light and white foam produced by the oxygen in the middle of the pond. After
we arrived at the village, the village committee had already asked the director of public security to cooperate with us. He introduced the situation and said that basically all the ponds here could raise carp, but one family raised a lot of them. It was said that they could sell koi to Southeast Asia for millions of yuan a year. I thought it was incredible after hearing it. The work is very simple, that is, to interview some fish farmers, ask who has raised more koi recently, and then ask about the export situation of koi. Many villagers expressed dissatisfaction with finding them at night, and we can only say that some Koi have something to do with solving a case, and we can’t tell them what the case is. At 11:00 in the
evening, we interviewed a slightly older villager who raises Tilapia for Export. He told us, the day before yesterday, someone in aquatic products market said that he could make a lot of money selling Koi to the United States. We couldn’t make much money by selling this kind of fish, so I went to ask him where he sold it to the United States. He said he sold it to the American Aquarium, and he couldn’t say anything else. At that time I thought he was bragging. We usually do export work in the aquatic industry, and we usually talk to each other when we have connections. I had never seen this person do export work before, and I thought he was bragging.
The border guard asked him, “Which shop did you meet in?”
The villagers said, “a shop selling goldfish and goldfish equipment is called Golden Dragon Aquatic Products.”
We thought this clue was very meaningful. I immediately reported it to Director Li and asked him to tell the visiting team in aquatic products market. After a period of time, when we were ready to visit the next one, Director Li called me and told me that we didn’t have to visit any more. He said that this person had this person and used the same box as the delivery. I asked Section Chief Sun for a brief understanding of the situation. He said that someone had indeed bought many of the same boxes in Jinlong Aquatic Products and casually told about the export of aquariums to the United States. The shopkeeper knew him. He was an employee of a breeding factory in our neighboring county. He was a local in his forties. He had also bought and sold related things in the aquatic products market before.
I asked Section Chief Sun on the phone, “Isn’t it a woman who came to deliver the goods?”? Now let’s make sure that they’re not being a little hasty.
He said, “The owner of the factory where he works is a woman. She signed Lu Juanjuan’s name on the receipt. We’ve looked at it, and both of them have the same signature. Now let’s go and get this person under control.” So
I said goodbye to the small fish-farming village under the moonlight, and returned to Guanli according to the leader’s request, waiting for the next notice. Soon, news came from Section Chief Sun. Director Li immediately asked us to hold a small meeting to carry out the next step of work deployment. He said that the employee of the farm, surnamed Wang, had been working in the aquatic industry and helped his boss purchase a lot of aquatic materials. This time, he did purchase some plastic boxes and rechargeable oxygen generators for export. Moreover, Director Li also told us one of the most important information: The proprietress of this farm usually uses two ID cards, and sometimes her name is “Lu Juanjuan.” Her real name is Wang Chunxiao, and she is a distant relative of this employee.
We also soon learned the address of Wang Chunxiao and her husband. Linxian has her house, and we also have her house here. After arrangement, Section Chief Sun took people from there to her house in the county over there. We were led by Director Li to her house here, and the two lines were arrested at the same time. At 2:30 in the
morning, our group got in touch with the police station, prepared the tools to break the door, and acted together with Section Chief Sun. After knocking on the door for a while, a man’s voice came from inside the door and asked, “What are you doing so late?” The man from the
police station said, “Police station, there is something wrong with the gas pipeline in your unit. It is very dangerous.”. We came one by one to inform. The man inside the
door said, “Is it true?”
We were all on the edge of the corridor, leaving only the police at the door. After waiting for a while, the door opened. We immediately rushed to control it. Then we found a woman in the bedroom who was getting ready to get up. She looked more than thirty years old, a little black and a little fat. We also controlled her. “What’s your name?” Asked Mr Lee.
She said, “Wang Chunxiao.”
“Do you know why I arrested you?”
“I know.” She replied. Who did
you contact and where did the goods come from? Did you guys do it together? Director Li asked.
“I contacted a Hong Kong man, and the goods were taken from a factory near the port.” She said quietly, “I can help you contact them.”. My husband doesn’t know much about it, and I’m the one doing all the docking.
I have never met a person who is so cooperative with our work. At that time, I felt that some people on the drug network had a clear understanding of reality, unlike the girls and stooges we met before who were so resistant to our work. After
we took the two men to the police car, Section Chief Sun also said that he had entered another house, and then the technical investigators immediately entered two places to search. While we reported the progress of the arrest, we escorted the two men back to Guanli overnight for further interrogation. Because it was a key case involving foreign affairs, I did not participate in the trial.
The next morning, I, who had not slept long, was dragged to a meeting again. Section Chief Sun briefed us on the situation and said: We found more than three kilograms of methamphetamine at their home in Linxian County. They did not pack it, indicating that these two people were still preparing to send other goods. We need to destroy their underground processing plant as soon as possible. The General Administration and the Ministry are also very concerned about this matter and will make arrangements soon.
He also said that the woman captured yesterday was very cooperative with our work. That night, she told us the approximate location of the methamphetamine underground factory, and that she got on the line with the United States through Liang Lunde, a Hong Kong man. This person was also engaged in trade business, and the methamphetamine underground factory was also introduced to Wang Chunxiao by him. At the end of the
briefing, Director Li said: “According to the feedback from the US side, the higher authorities still asked us to send a batch of koi to the US, so that they could destroy the industrial chain of receiving goods there.” Then he told me, “Let’s coordinate quickly at the port. At dawn, we’ll make a new batch of koi according to the previous delivery address and send it by the changed flight.”
I had never had the experience of delivering such a living thing, and I was very puzzled and asked, “Where can I get fish?”? How can I pay for this? Director
Li said, “Wang Chunxiao’s farm still has the same fish. She will call the people in the farm to explain that the money must be paid according to the rules of the market.”. You have to pay for the business card first. Time is too tight. You have to complete the export formalities today, and the special fee will be reported to you later. After
the meeting, I immediately arranged for Jinhui to go to the farm to buy koi. Wang Chunxiao had already given us the contact person during the trial. We were going to Jinlong Aquatic Products to buy the same plastic box and oxygen generator, and then go to the farm to load fish. This was the first time I had arranged to buy so many fish.
Boss Mo, I went to see him and asked him to complete the invoice according to the actual manifest. By the afternoon, the handover of Koi was also smooth. We had prepared 20 boxes of new Koi. Director Huang took the lead in arranging some customs declaration and approval work to ensure that all export procedures on our side were legal. Then the koi are ready to fly to the United States the next day.
After all the formalities had been completed and the train was loaded from our freight yard and sent to the airport, I called Director Li and said, “Everything is ready and the formalities have been completed.” Director
Li said to me, “I will immediately tell my superiors about this situation and tell them to prepare for the US side.” Then he said, “Xiao Dong, come and join us in our deployment meeting tonight.”
I said, “If I go to the factory to arrest people, I don’t think I’ll go. I haven’t had much rest for more than a day. I have other work to do.” Director
Li immediately said, “We haven’t had much rest. We have to put aside our other work. I have told the customs chief that you have delivered drugs before, and your height and physique are actually quite suitable for these large-scale arrests.”
I had no choice but to agree to come down. It was more than a day of continuous fighting. But I thought that maybe after closing the net this time, many problems could be solved. At the meeting in the evening, it was said that the arrest operation would be carried out the next day. Our target factory was a chicken farm. The whole operation on the opposite side was unified and coordinated. According to Wang Chunxiao’s account, We have locked in the main leaders of several chicken farms and several employees who may be involved in the smuggling of methamphetamine. Because time is pressing, the arrest work is carried out at the same time. There are eight arrest teams in total. Our team is led by Director Li and colleagues of the local public security to go to the chicken farm. Because the place is relatively large, there are more than 20 people. Other colleagues and border police are responsible for the arrest of individuals, a group of four or five people. And that night’s meeting, the local public security colleagues said that the factory is relatively large in the village, and may have a complex relationship with the village, so tomorrow’s action will not inform the village to cooperate. And in order to make more people, this meeting also let me take Jin Hui to help tomorrow.
After the meeting, at twelve o’clock in the evening, I could finally have a good rest and prepare for the next day’s action. This action simply called all the young and middle-aged men in our unit-even the colleagues of technology, science and computer were pulled to participate in the action, because the leaders felt that if more people needed to be caught on the spot, it was always good to have more people. Early
the next morning, instead of driving a police car, we drove some rented domestic off-road vehicles and set off in a mighty way-I don’t know how the leaders rented so many off-road vehicles in one night. By nine o’clock, we were already near the chicken farm where the arrest was to be carried out. The chicken farm is quite large, surrounded by red brick walls, with a green iron gate and several rows of houses inside. Even outside the wall, we can still smell the smell of chicken excrement, which is disgusting. Director
Li asked everyone to tidy up their equipment. He took people to check the guns. We put on black bulletproof vests (mainly for stab-proof) and held batons. We had done basic training in riot prevention before. I had also participated in riot prevention operations, so I knew the process. Two men with 97-2 shotguns and shield batons were posted at each corner of the chicken farm, and we went to the gate. Because there is a small door open inside the gate during working hours. Section
Chief Sun was the first to go in with two people, and then we also entered. An older looking gatekeeper asked us what we were doing. “The anti-smuggling police should cooperate with us,”
Sun said! Where is the office?
The security guard pointed to the row of bungalows closest to the gate and said, “Everyone is here, but I haven’t seen the boss this morning.”
We rushed to the bungalow immediately, and the security guard wanted to go with us. Chief Sun and two of his colleagues rushed in with their pistols and shouted, “Don’t move! Squat down with your hands on your head!” I quickly followed up and found that there were five people inside, all squatting down with their heads in their hands. Chief
Sun asked a young man at the door, “Where is the person in charge? Is there anyone else?”
The young man pointed to the house inside and said, “The boss didn’t come, but the manager is here, and there are more than a dozen people in the chicken house.”
We quickly controlled the twenty people here. No one resisted. They all cooperated with our work. These people basically knew each other. Many of the workers who fed the chickens were farmers in the village. Chief Sun asked the manager, who was holding his head in his arms, “Apart from houses for raising chickens, do you have any houses for processing and warehouses?”
These people did not speak, but after a while the security guard quietly said to us: “There is a warehouse in the penultimate row of houses. I don’t even have a key. I don’t know what it is.” After
we took care of everyone, Section Chief Sun took me and two other people to the penultimate house, through a lot of chickens clucking and a bad smell, we found a small iron door locked with a chain lock, Section Chief Sun asked someone to open the lock, and then we went in. Found some plastic buckets and some chemical equipment like measuring cups and beakers.
I went up and opened a plastic bucket and found some yellowish crystalline particles in it. “It’s similar to what we looked for in PMK.” I said to section chief Sun.
He also nodded. After we reported to Director Li, he called the technical investigator and asked Guanli to send a minibus to bring back all the people caught today. I asked Mr Lee, “What are we going to do with so many chickens now that all these people have taken them?”
He glared and then said, “The town should be able to deal with it. It’s not his family that raises chickens.”. Xiao Dong, why do you always think about these things?
I did not speak again, and when our minibus arrived, many people in the village had surrounded the chicken farm and would not let us go, saying that the customs could not take people away. Of course, I have encountered this kind of siege many times.
The leader contacted the leader of the town and the village party secretary, and we waited in the chicken farm. For a moment, I felt that these chickens were really pitiful. They lived in a narrow three-storey chicken cage. The space for activities was very small. The air in the field was dirty and the sound was very loud. They could only eat the same feed and do the same thing every day. When they grew up a little, they would be killed. And many people don’t care about their fate at all. I can still remember what I thought at that time, and I was more concerned about the fate of these chickens than about the drug traffickers.
After waiting for more than hour, the town leader and the village party secretary came over. The village party secretary, surnamed Lin, wore glasses and looked like a cultural person, which was different from many village party secretaries we had seen at that time. The village party secretary said to Director Li, “You have arrested so many people at one time, and I have no way to explain it in the village. Even if there is a problem with this factory, it is the problem of the bosses, and it has nothing to do with these workers.” Director
Li said, “This case is rather urgent, and we must bring people back to investigate.” Dozens of villagers had gathered
nearby, shouting, “The customs are beating people!”! Customs is beating people! In fact, we didn’t have any conflict with the people we arrested.
I’ve been in this situation before, but they were all smugglers, and I really didn’t understand why these people were besieging us when we were arresting people from chicken farms. The leaders in the
town have been saying good words to smooth things over. It is reasonable to say that our Director Li is a cadre at the deputy department level, but he cannot take away some suspects here. Generally speaking, it is necessary to inform the local authorities to arrest people, but sometimes the time is really too tight or for the sake of confidentiality, sometimes it is not necessary to inform the local authorities, so it is reasonable to say that it does not matter much when we coordinate with the town.
After nearly 40 minutes of wrangling and upward communication with Director Li, we reached a temporary agreement that seven female workers would not be taken away this time, and both managers and men would be taken away. When we took the people to the bus, the village party secretary said, “We can take them away, but we are also working here, and we have to be accountable to the villagers. We can help each other and work well!”. We didn’t want to listen to the education of a village party secretary, and our koi would be delivered soon, so we quickly took everyone away. Other arrest teams are also very smooth, in addition to one person, the other partners of the chicken farm are basically on the case.
I followed the SUV back to Guanli and asked my colleagues about the Koi. They said they were ready to load the cargo plane and set out on time in the evening. I breathed a sigh of relief. Director Li also breathed a sigh of relief and began to deploy the interrogation of the captured people.
Because of the large number of people, the investigation, investigation and intelligence departments, as well as the people sent by their superiors, all participated in the interrogation. Many people went to Guanli to help. I also saw Wang Chunxiao. She had changed the clothes she wore when she was arrested yesterday. We gave her an army green coat. She looked haggard. The dark circles on her dark face were more obvious. I was curious about a lot of things, but I couldn’t ask her directly. At five o’clock in the
evening, my colleague told me that the Koi had taken off, and the superior customs had followed up directly, and also contacted Interpol about the goods. Our side of the trial has also achieved great results. The arrested person confessed to the person who provided them with raw materials. He confessed the fact that he used the cover of the chicken farm to manufacture drugs. He also confessed that more than 130 kilograms of methamphetamine had been sent out the day before yesterday. The new one had not been manufactured yet. It had been transported to our bay head fishing boat dock. It was transported to Malaysia by a boat captain named “Fat Boy” on an offshore fishing boat. This man was also introduced to their factory by Hong Kong resident Leung Lun-teh. They did not know what his real name was. At that time, there was no monitoring in many parts of the village. “Fat Boy” drove a light blue farm tricycle without a license plate. Moreover, this man also used a Vietnamese mobile phone number to contact the factory.
As a result, another special task force was set up. This time, the name of the special task force is 1101. It is specially designed to solve this major case of methamphetamine manufacturing. Because our koi has not yet arrived in the United States, although Interpol has notified the relevant police to arrange Liang Lunde, it is not easy to arrest him directly now. Director Li led us to the wharf of the fishing boat at the head of the bay without stopping. Jin Hui and I were together at our port. Because of the matter involving the fishing boat, we also called the colleagues of the water anti-smuggling team together, hoping to find out as soon as possible what kind of fishing boat the goods were loaded on. We must not allow a large amount of methamphetamine to be transported out of the country.
Because of the special task force, our work has also been slightly adjusted, that is, to be responsible for the drug interception in our customs jurisdiction. As for the chain of precursor raw materials and methamphetamine in China, the General Administration and departments coordinate with other places and police.
This time we contacted the town first. We told them the characteristics described by the arrested suspects. They sent them to the security directors of the two villages where the wharf is located and left their phone numbers. Then we went to the fishing boat wharf with the border police station for inspection. They did know that there were seven or eight people named “Fat Boy” who were basically fat, and there were also three people working on fishing boats. We went to visit them one by one, but after visiting them, we didn’t find anything unusual, nor did we see anyone who had this kind of agricultural tricycle. In the name of strengthening fishery administration, the border police station began to send people to inspect more than 100 fishing boats. Together with them, we also sent people to interview all the people on all the fishing boats. However, this efficiency was always very low. We also transferred some people from the customs to visit. Another night
passed, but there was still nothing to be gained. At ten o’clock in the morning, a security director called me and said, “The port said that an ocean-going fishing boat was going to leave the port this afternoon, but it applied for a change and left early in the morning. The captain of the boat was called’Fat Brother. ‘”. Let me tell you about this situation.
I asked, “Why didn’t you say this yesterday?”? What ship number?
He said, “You’re looking for’Fat Boy, ‘not’Fat Brother.’ You’re looking for an offshore fishing boat, not an ocean-going fishing boat. If he hadn’t changed the time, I wouldn’t have known you were looking for this.”. The ship’s number seems to be: Bay Fishery 2682.
I immediately reported to Director Li. We called “Fat Brother” Huang Weixin, but we couldn’t get through. At that time, he had been walking for three hours, and it was estimated that there was no signal. So we went to Huang Weixin’s home. There was no one in his home. The security director introduced that his wife was cooking on the boat and should go together. We asked the security director to look for Huang Weixin’s life photos and asked about Huang Weixin’s situation. He is 30 years old this year. He is the youngest of the three children in his family. He is a little fat. His wife is 26 years old. The boat was bought by the three elders together. He is the captain. The captain was his father before, but his father is not going to sea now. Chief
Sun suggested, “Time is too tight. Let’s go in and have a look. We’ll fill in the formalities later.” After Director
Li made a phone call, he agreed. We went into Huang Weixin’s home, which was an ordinary home in the countryside. It was a two-storey house with a big yard. Then we found a light blue agricultural tricycle without a license plate in the shed behind his house. Chief Sun asked the director of public security, “His family has a tricycle. Don’t you know that?” The director of
public security was obviously a little unhappy. He said, “They don’t have to report to the village committee even if they buy a tricycle at home!”! By the way, if you get the photos, his neighbors will have photos of his life. Section Chief
Sun took a photo of the car, asked for the photo and sent it to the person in charge of interrogation in Guanli. Then he simply looked at it at home and found that they had packed up a lot of things when they left. Some of the cabinets were empty, but he did not find anything particularly suspicious. After about 20 minutes, Kuan Li replied, “The suspect passed by, and it was this man and this car!”
“It must be the’fat brother ‘who heard about our investigation and ran away early in the morning?” I say.
“It should be, but if he runs away, we’ll catch him when he comes back, unless he sneaks in with his wife this time.” Section Chief Sun also said.
Very likely. We must bring him back. Director Li said. He immediately reported to his superiors, and then called our maritime anti-smuggling team. He said, “Captain Pan, we will go to the sea to chase a fishing boat transporting drugs. It may take a long time to chase it. We will ask Captain Lu to prepare the 906 boat immediately. We will go to the dock in two hours with all the equipment and live ammunition.” After hanging up the phone, he said to section chief Sun, “Sun Fo, you and Xiao Dong go to the port’s maritime affairs to find out about the ship’s movements. We have to pull them into our special task force. I’ll ask the leader to coordinate them. You should be almost there.” Section Chief Sun and
I immediately drove to the Maritime Bureau of the port to learn about the situation of the ship. Director Li took others to Guanli to pick up equipment for preparation. We agreed to gather at our anti-smuggling boat dock later.
Half an hour later, we arrived at the Maritime Bureau, and someone had already received us. Chief Song of the Maritime Bureau told us that the maximum speed of the ship was 14 knots, and it usually ran 8 or 9 knots. He also checked the information of the ship and said that the positioning system was on an hour ago, but it was closed when it left the coast. I was so nervous that I asked him, “Can’t you find these ships if you turn off the navigation?” “I’m sure I can’t find it on the sea,”
he said. “But there’s nothing wrong with it near the shore. There’s radar. We, the Coast Guard, and your big ships all have radar.
I immediately felt ashamed. Section Chief Sun told him to support our work. He said that the leader had arranged it. They also talked to Captain Pan on the phone and would keep in touch with him in the future. We talked about some other crew information, and then we went to our anti-smuggling dock. When we
arrived at the pier, it was already noon, and Director Li had arrived with eight people. I saw that Jin Hui was also there, so I asked him, “Why did you come to the pier?”
He said, “Dong Ke, I’ve been doing this for two or three days, but I haven’t caught the biggest fish yet. How can I be anticlimactic? Besides, I’m different from you. I haven’t been in the anti-smuggling business, and I haven’t been on this big ship yet.”. I applied with Director Li to come here, because I have a rest these two days and I will not work at the port. Come to learn and make a contribution! In the future, you can also brag, just like when you investigated the first case of heroin at the port. It’s very exciting to talk about it.
In fact, I have only visited the ship, and I have never taken it to sea. At 300 tons, the 906 was our largest ship at that time, with a maximum speed of 38 knots, a 37 mm machine gun, two 12.7 mm machine guns, and two high-pressure water cannons. In fact, I had the same curiosity as him. Director
Li said to us: “The US side responded very quickly. As soon as the plane arrived, they locked three suspects. They should have arrested them when they came to pick up the cargo. The Hong Kong side is also preparing to arrest Liang Lunde. According to the information from Interpol.”. And they said that the US Embassy and the DEA would also send a letter to thank us for the intelligence tip. Chief
Sun smiled and said, “When did the Americans become so kind?”
Everyone chatted while preparing, saying that Hong Kong was also preparing to arrest Liang Lunde, and then Wang Chunxiao and her husband would be taken to their superiors for further investigation. But we were all chatting, because we were preparing to go to sea, and I was going to realize my first time in my life, to catch an ocean-going fishing boat loaded with methamphetamine on the high seas!
