14 DAY TRIAL // Almost three tonnes of crystal meth were confiscated in the Chinese village of Boshe in Lufend City after a 3,000 strong police force was sent to raid the drug operation. Locals fought back with stones and grenades in an attempt to save their illicit operation.
The village was filled with families involved in producing and trafficking drugs, putting the town in the top sources of the country's crystal meth supplies list. In order to shut down the operation, security and paramilitary forces had to immobilize the whole village, blocking entrances and using fire arms.
The village resisted authorities for years managing to keep prospering with their crystal meth labs and turning the operation into a national threat. Most of the community members were part of the clan-based operation with members as young as 18 years old, known as the third most developed drug producing process in China.
“The village has made a criminal drug production a clan-based, industrialized operation with local protection. The offenders have for a long time been brazenly committing crimes, avoiding investigations and even ganging up to violently oppose law enforcement,” the police statement wrote, according to Daily Mail.
Usually, such operations are stopped before reaching a worrying level, but in this case, the locals managed to barricade themselves and chase away law enforcement officers for years. In an attempt to shut it down once and for all, security forces decided to take extreme measures and froze the entire village with the use of dozens of vans, helicopters and speedboats to make sure none of those involved would escape.
Gigantic packages, pots and meth cooking equipment were seized in the massive shutdown with military forces raiding each and every establishment. The bust is part of a regional plan called “Operation Thunder” meant to shut down all illicit drug operations from the Guangdong region. Until now, the mass detention lead to the capture of 11,000 drug suspects and confiscated more than eight tons of drugs.