Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/12
By: Wang Shu-fen and Flor Wang

Kaohsiung, Feb. 12 (CNA) Three drug mules were caught at the Taichung airport late

Photo courtesy of Kaohsiung Aviation Police Bureau

Sunday while trying to smuggle illicit drugs worth over NT$10 million (US$340,000) into Taiwan, aviation police said Monday.

The three men, who took a Dragon Air flight from Hong Kong to Taichung in central Taiwan, were found to have a total of more than eight kilograms of methamphetamine tied to their waist and two thighs in small packets, said Lai Chia-hung (賴嘉宏), chief of the inspection team of the Kaohsiung Aviation Police Bureau.

This was the third time that illicit drugs were seized at a local airport this year, following similar incidents at Kaohsiung International Airport on Jan. 12 and Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Feb. 9.    [FULL  STORY]