SHANGHAI, CHINA – Putting a new spin on the world of crime and fruit pairings, market value fruit prices were the downfall of this woman’s recent drug smuggling scheme. 

Chinese authorites have announced that a woman from the country’s Guangdong Province was arrested along with two others for using fruit sales as a catalyst to move around 100 lbs. of methamphetamine.

The woman, surnamed Lu, used a van filled with fruit to smuggle the drugs into Shanghai. However, it was the fruit that ended up getting her busted. Having nowhere to offload her unneeded fruit, Lu began selling it herself at a wholesale produce market in Putuo District. 

“Because Lu used fruit to sneak the drug into Shanghai, she was eager to get rid it in case the presence of a large amount of fruit in her apartment made neighbors suspicious,” said Shen Yi, a Putuo police official, according to ShanghaiDaily.com. 

Authorities intercepted Lu’s van at a toll gate after becoming noticing Lu’s fruit sales at well below standard market price, and found bags of the illicit drugs stuffed in metal cans. Police said that about 80 percent of drug trafficking cases involve the substances entering Shanghai by road.

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