From the AP Newswire...


600 Pounds of Heroin Found in Beehives by Chinese Authorities
The Associated Press
Apr 14, 2004
AP-ES-04-14-04 1031EDT

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Police in southwest China seized about 600
pounds of heroin hidden in beehives, the official Xinhua News Agency
reported Wednesday.  Acting on a tip, authorities found the drugs
Feb. 29 during a pre-dawn sweep along the mountainous border between
Myanmar and China's Yunnan province, about 1,300 miles southwest of
Beijing, Xinhua said. The raid was the country's largest so far this year.

Four suspects from eastern China were arrested on suspicion of arranging
the shipment, the report said.

The heroin was found inside 63 beehives being transported by truck, Xinhua said.


It was not clear if smugglers have used that technique before, although
drugs have previously been found inside coconuts and baked into ceramic
figurines.

Yunnan borders Asia's infamous "Golden Triangle," a heroin producing region
which i
ncludes parts of Laos, Thailand and Burma.

Heroin smuggled into China is either consumed by the country's growing numbers
of
drug users, or shipped to other countries.

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