Taichung police today revealed the arrest last year of an alleged heroin dealer who evaded detection by hiding her drugs in a baby stroller.
In a news release, the Taichung Police Department said that officers at its Fengyuan Precinct learned of the 44-year-old woman, surnamed Hung (洪), while investigating other drug cases in April last year, and alerted local prosecutors.
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Investigators found that Hung, a resident of Houli District (后里), had taken up drug dealing to supplement the unstable income brought in by her husband, a temporary laborer, the statement said.
Hung developed a base of customers using social media, whom she arranged to meet and sell drugs at different locations around the city.
Hung evaded detection by taking her young child out on the trips in a baby stroller, which she also used to hide the drugs until it was time to make a sale, police said.
After collecting sufficient evidence, officers arrested Hung on the street in July last year.
They also searched her home, seizing account books, bags of heroin and amphetamine, an electric scale, a mobile phone and drug paraphernalia.
Based on the account books, Hung was making as much as NT$200,000 a month dealing drugs, local media reported.
Following further investigation, Taichung prosecutors charged Hung in January with contraventions of the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例).
Police also asked the Taichung Social Affairs Bureau to evaluate whether Hung's child would be able to receive adequate care at home, the reports said.
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