Five arrested as Xinhe police seize 798 g of cannabis in linked buys
Xinhe County police arrested five people and seized 797.83 g of cannabis, two live cannabis plants and 20,000 yuan in drug money in a case that linked a buyer in Xinhe to a seller in Yining. Officers caught the buyer on 15 July 2025 and the seller during a deal in a Yining barbecue restaurant on 27 July.
Police in Xinhe County, in China’s Xinjiang region, say they have arrested
five people and seized797.83 g of cannabis in a case that ran from Yining to
Xinhe.[1]The county public security bureau said officers found a local man,
identified only as Ai, had bought four packages of cannabis in Yining through
an intermediary for 23,000 yuan and drove them to Xinhe County.[1]
On 15 July 2025 officers arrested Ai at a residential compound in Xinhe Town
and seized 388.14 g of cannabis on the spot.[1]Xinhe police then opened a
task force and worked with Yining’s anti-drug brigade.[1]On 27 July they
arrested a man identified as Pa during an active drug deal in a Yining
barbecue restaurant, seizing 397.56 g of cannabis, 20,000 yuan in cash and a
mobile phone.[1]A search of Pa’s home turned up another 12.13 g of
suspected cannabis, two cannabis plants and drug paraphernalia.[1]
In total the bureau said it seized 797.83 g of cannabis and two cannabis
plants, broke one criminal case and one administrative case, and detained five
people; the work was still under way.[1]
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The police statement names only surnames (艾某, 帕某) and does not spell out charges or sentences; it says the cases are still being handled.
Guangming Net republished Xinhe County public security material dated only as “recently” before 16 August 2025; the report is dated at the 27 July arrest in Yining, the last step named with a calendar date.
No independent news report was found beyond this republication of the county police account.
The statement says five “违法犯罪嫌疑人” were caught but does not say how many face criminal rather than administrative proceedings.
Hangzhou customs seized more than 400 g of cannabis from a US–Hangzhou parcel disguised as snacks and arrested the Hangzhou recipient after a controlled delivery; officers then caught the supplier returning through Shanghai Pudong airport on 26 June 2025. Police said the pair bought abroad to sell locally to fund their own use.
Xinhe County police arrested a villager on 2 June 2025 after a tip that he was growing cannabis behind his home in a cotton field, and uprooted 63 plants. He told officers he had planted seeds found while cleaning his house despite a prior cannabis penalty in 2014; police said a urine test showed recent use.
Police in Akto County, Xinjiang, arrested a man on 1 January 2024 after a tip that drugs might be hidden in his home, and seized 627 grams of raw cannabis plants with a drug-detection dog. He confessed to using drugs and the case remained under investigation.
Customs officers at Beijing Capital International Airport detained an unidentified Nigerian man on 3 March 2009 when he returned to claim a suitcase holding 72 bricks of marijuana weighing 87.25 kg, abandoned the day before after he arrived from Lagos. Police called it China's biggest drug haul of the year.