Hangzhou customs anti-smuggling officers say they have arrested two people over a cannabis parcel mailed from the United States to Hangzhou, with the second suspect caught at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on the evening of 26 June 2025.[1]

On 18 May 2025 post-office officers inspected an inbound personal parcel declared as “beef, fries and pea snacks”.[1] The X-ray image did not match food; inside, besides cheap snacks, were four plastic-wrapped bags of green-grey plant material that officers treated as suspected cannabis.[1] On 19 May the Zhejiang public-security forensic centre confirmed cannabis, totalling more than 400 g.[1]

Investigators identified a Hangzhou recipient, a man surnamed Xu born in the 1990s, and let the parcel deliver under control before detaining him when he signed for it.[1] WeChat messages on his phone linked him to a man surnamed Zhang born in the 1980s who arranged overseas supply and a dedicated phone number for drug parcels while Xu paid and received mail, the account said.[1] Both men had increased their use and agreed to sell cannabis to fund it, it added.[1]

Zhang had left China; Hangzhou customs pursued him and detained him on 26 June when he entered through Pudong, completing the pair’s arrest, the article said.[1]