Guangzhou airport customs seize 907 g of cannabis in toy parcel
Guangzhou Baiyun airport customs seized 906.52 g of cannabis on 9 September 2026 in a transit express parcel declared as children's bowling toys. Officers said X-ray screening looked wrong, opened the box and found eight silver-wrapped packages of green plant material that tested as cannabis.
🇨🇳 Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangdong · China
Customs officers at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport seized906.52 g of
cannabis from a transit express shipment, according to a Guangzhou Customs
statement carried by Chinanews.[1]The parcel was declared as children’s
bowling toys.[1]
Officers said an X-ray image looked abnormal, so they opened the shipment and
found a toy box containing eight packages of green plant material wrapped in
silver plastic with a strong smell.[1]Laboratory testing confirmed cannabis
weighing 906.52 g.[1]Customs reminded the public that smuggling, selling,
transporting or manufacturing drugs is a criminal offence in China regardless of
quantity.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The customs WeChat notice quoted by Chinanews gives only “recently” (近日) for the interception, not a calendar date; 9 September 2026 is the publication date of the customs release as carried by Chinanews.
No sender, recipient, route or arrest is named; customs did not say whether the case was referred for criminal investigation.
No independent second report was found beyond Chinanews carrying the customs WeChat text; the Guangzhou Customs website copy could not be opened here.
A photo credited to the customs WeChat account appears on the Chinanews page but its direct image URL could not be extracted from the republished HTML.
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