China Busts Cross-Border Drug Ring Involving Retired Professor

Chinese authorities arrested 71 suspects in a cross-border drug trafficking ring involving a retired chemistry professor and a graduate with a chemistry degree.

Investigators traced precursor chemical purchases used to manufacture etomidate, a synthetic drug found in illicit zombie vapes, across five Chinese cities.

The suspects allegedly shipped precursor chemicals abroad to laboratories in Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia, seizing roughly 73 kilograms of finished narcotics.