Guangzhou customs at Baiyun Airport’s air-cargo port seized 2,380.96 g of cannabis in a transit express parcel, according to reporting on a customs case.[1][2] Guangzhou Baiyun Airport customs officers were screening a shipment declared as “cocoa crisps” (可可酥脆) when the X-ray image looked wrong.[1][2] They opened five boxes of foreign-brand breakfast cereal and found vacuum-packed green plant fragments with a strong irritant smell.[1][2] Laboratory testing confirmed the material was cannabis weighing 2,380.96 g.[1][2] The republished notices do not say whether anyone was arrested; they repeat criminal-law warnings that smuggling or trafficking drugs of any amount is punishable.[1][2]
Guangzhou airport customs seize 2,381 g of cannabis hidden in cereal boxes
Guangzhou Baiyun Airport customs seized 2,380.96 g of cannabis in a transit parcel declared as “cocoa crisps”, according to reporting on a customs case. Officers said five boxes of foreign-brand breakfast cereal contained vacuum-packed green plant fragments that tested as cannabis; the case was referred to anti-smuggling investigators.
🇨🇳 Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangdong · China
- Cannabis
- 2.38096 kg
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Cannabis
- 2.38096 kg
- Agency type
- Customs
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis (2.38096 kg)
- Activity
- Smuggling, Trafficking
- Setting
- Airport, Mail or parcel
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Sources
- 江苏禁毒网jindu.jschina.com.cnZH伪装麦片入境？2380余克大麻被当场查获
- 手机新浪网finance.sina.cnZH广州海关查获超2380克大麻
Open questions the AI reported
- The customs notice and republished reports give only “recently” (近日) or “a few days ago” (日前) for the seizure, not a calendar date; 21 August 2026 is when Guangzhou Customs posted the case on its website, used here as the incident date.
- No sender, recipient, route, arrest or prosecution outcome is reported.
- Sina and Jiangsu Anti-Drug Network republish the same customs “Customs Release” text without adding independent facts beyond the Guangzhou Customs announcement dated 21 August 2026.
- No photo of the seizure was linked with a recoverable direct image URL in the opened pages.
