Store owner sells drugs using clerk's identity

A sex toy store owner who used an employee's identity card to open an online store and sell drugs has been arrested, prosecutors in Minhang District, Shanghai, said on Tuesday.

The store owner, surnamed Wang, used the identity card of his salesclerk Li.

According to the Minhang District People's Procuratorate, Li was apprehended by police in March this year. Police showed him a package with his name, phone number and address, which contained the new-type liquid drug Rhino.

Li then remembered that his employer Wang had borrowed his identity card to open an online store in 2017 and later asked him to apply for two new cellphone SIM cards. Li also applied for a bank card and gave it to Wang.

Li told police that he often saw Wang packing things and dispatching them for delivery.

Wang was soon traced by police and confessed to using another person's private information to sell drugs. 

Wang said he started to sell Rhino via platforms such as WeChat and Taobao in 2017.

After Taobao banned Rhino in November last year, he became aware it was a prohibited good.

However, he still had 50 tubes of Rhino left in his store and decided to sell them as soon as possible.

He used Li's private information to send and receive packages and opened a WeChat account with the phone number and bank account supplied by Li to post ads.

Wang's three buyers who resold the drugs were also captured by police.

Meanwhile, a woman who was charged with selling two packets of heroin weighing 0.12 grams by prosecutors in Yangpu District, pretended to be pregnant in order to escape punishment.

The woman, who has a criminal record for trafficking drugs, was arrested in March. 

However, she told police that she was five-month pregnant and had a 1-year-old baby at home. A urine test showed she was pregnant. However, a blood test returned a negative result.

She then confessed she had used a container with urine from a pregnant woman to pass the first test.