A student who allegedly sold marijuana to foreigners at a cybercafe has been arrested for drug trafficking, prosecutors in Songjiang District said yesterday.
The Donghua University undergraduate, surnamed Shen, earned about 10,000 yuan ($1,546) from peddling drugs, mainly to foreign students, in Songjiang College Town over three months.
According to prosecutors, Songjiang police became aware of possible drug-trafficking activity at a local cybercafe on December 24 last year. Officers found that the suspect had been making frequent phone calls on the premises and used the restroom with suspicious frequency.
Officers watched his residence and saw a foreign man leaving his flat. They stopped the German national, searched him and found marijuana on his person, which he told them he had purchased from the suspect for 100 yuan.
When Shen returned to the cybercafe at dawn the next day to see two foreign men, the police were ready to pounce.
Officers searched them and found marijuana on both Shen and one of the buyers.
Police raided Shen's home and found marijuana in both smokable form and plants.
Shen told police that he had previously just purchased marijuana for his own use, but began to notice that many foreign students at Songjiang College Town smoked the drug, prompting him to start dealing.
His customers telephoned him to make orders and then came to his home or met him at the cybercafe to transact business.
The foreigners were not charged due to the small quantities found in their possession.
Shen could face jail or potentially the death penalty.
