When an apartment flowerbed is dug up, a bundle of drugs wrapped in plastic is discovered.
["You just dig here. (There it is, there it is.)"]
This was marijuana that was about to be sold through the so-called "dead-drop" method.
Those who distributed these drugs were a man in his 30s, A, and another woman in his 30s, B.
Previously, in May of last year, ketamine, which is notorious as a club drug, was found under the seat of an aircraft that arrived at Incheon International Airport from Cambodia.
Through the analysis of passengers and CCTV footage, A was identified as a suspect, and an analysis of his mobile phone revealed the whereabouts of accomplice B and the marijuana.
B was emergency arrested when ketamine was found inside her underwear when she entered through Incheon International Airport from Cambodia on the 7th of last month.
On December 16 of last year, three packs of marijuana manufactured in the form of cigarettes were found in the accessible restroom of the arrival hall at Incheon International Airport.
As there were no CCTV cameras inside the restroom and no fingerprints were detected, the investigative team analyzed the movement routes of visitors using CCTV footage that filmed around the restroom entrance for two months.
Noticing that a man in his 30s, C, was wearing different clothes when entering the restroom compared to when he came out, the investigative team searched his vehicle and discovered cigarette-style marijuana of the same type.
Through mobile phone forensics, the investigative team additionally booked two other men in their 30s who had smuggled in marijuana and chocolates containing hallucinogenic ingredients together with C.
The Incheon Airport Customs said, "Drug offenders are smuggling in narcotics using increasingly stealthy and sophisticated methods," adding, "We will thoroughly block narcotics from being brought into and distributed within the country through airtight crackdowns."
Reported by Kim Hye-min | Video by Jeon Min-gyu | Produced by SBS Digital News
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