If one day your middle school math teacher with a happy family and 3-year-old son turns out to be a drug dealer who has a huge network from which students from 37 universities nationwide purchase marijuana, you will probably feel that “Breaking Bad” isn’t just a TV series, but something much closer to reality.
The story climaxed on Dec. 28, when police in Wenzhou, China, arrested 23 suspects, seized over 200 kilograms of drugs, and eradicated over 6,000 marijuana plants, which were grown in multiple enclosures covering 3.3 acres, according to The Paper, a Shanghai-based, state-owned news website.
The discovery of this drug ring began this May, when police of the Longwan District in Wenzhou, a coastal city in southeast China, found some signs of drug deals in a QQ chat group, a popular Chinese social media.
A group was established to investigate the case, and discovered that the deals were made using instant messaging tools. Money was exchanged using a third-party payment utility like PayPal. The drugs were disguised as tea leaves or chocolates in mail packages and sold nationwide.
Mr. Sun, the ringleader, is a graduate of an agricultural program at Jilin University, a renowned national research university in China, and was once admitted to the Masters program at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a higher education institution under China’s top scientific academy.
His agricultural knowledge was used to develop high-quality marijuana at home, and he was planning to expand his planting once his enterprise matured.
