Drug bun: Chinese delivery driver smells a rat over strange food order and helps police take down nationwide drugs-in-delicacies narcotics gang
- Delivery man asked to take a pair of steamed buns between two cities 30km apart alerts police and helps uncover huge drug ring
- Online observers shower praise on the man and say his story could form the plot of a movie
A quick-thinking Chinese delivery driver has received a flood of online plaudits after he worked out an unusual drug concealment trick by a customer, helping police break up a nationwide narcotics-dealing gang.
In July 2021, the unidentified driver took an order asking him to take two steamed stuffed buns between two cities - Xianyang and Xian - 30km apart in northwestern China’s Shaanxi province.
Finding the request strange, he took the tightly packed buns to the Xianyang police, who discovered a small plastic bag of drugs hidden inside each bun.
The police traced his order and arrested two people, surnamed Zhao and Liu, for trading in heroin.
Drug dealer Zhao took officers to his rental apartment, where another six bags of heroin were discovered.