The police ambushed at the door of Zhu Nan's house and arrested him when he opened the door.

(Photographed by reporter Yao Yuehong)

[Reporter Yao Yuehong/Taipei Report] Last September in Longtan, Taoyuan, the police cracked down the largest marijuana farm in history headed by the 67-year-old Songlian gang veteran "Lichi" Wu Laiju, and seized 4,218 marijuana plants with a black market value of more than 1.2 billion yuan, the police traced the source and traced it. This month, they arrested two drug production consultants surnamed Yu and Zhu, and a man surnamed Li who assisted in the purchase of planting tools. He assisted in teaching planting techniques, and was transferred to the Taoyuan District Prosecutor's Office for investigation based on the felony crime of assisting in drug production.

'Professor of Marijuana' Sent for Felony Aid in Drug Production

According to the investigation by the police, Wu Nan began to rent a thousand-square-meter farmland next to the 601st Brigade camp in Taoyuan City the year before last to build a marijuana farm. A 37-year-old man surnamed Ke hired six escaped Indonesian female migrant workers to take care of the watering work. Ke and Wu regarded themselves as farmers in front of their neighbors.

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When the police took action last year, they seized 4,218 live marijuana plants, four cans of cannabis tincture, and fifteen finished and semi-finished marijuana.

Seven kilograms of evidence, eight suspects were arrested at the scene and all of them were detained and forbidden to be seen. The police judged that these people had no relevant agricultural planting background, and suspected that there were experts behind them, and continued to trace the source.

The police investigation found that Wu Laiju, the head of the Songlian Gang and a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee, recruited Yu Nan, 71, and Zhu Nan, 61. Both of them had professional chemical and plant knowledge backgrounds. He worked as a lecturer at a university and as a consultant for an agricultural development company after retirement. Wu Huanzun called Yu Nan a "professor", and he helped teach him the knowledge of soil types, fertilizer ratios, and light intensity required for on-site planting.

Consultant Zhu Nan translates the English version of Cannabis Notes

Another name, Zhu Nan, introduced the professional planting technology of marijuana field in California, USA, and translated the English version of the cannabis planting notes to Wu Laiju, and then Li Nan purchased the equipment and materials needed for planting marijuana. Large-scale and rapid cultivation of cannabis seedlings to a scale of more than 4,000 adult plants.

On the 5th of this month, the police simultaneously searched six related hiding places in Taichung City, Taipei City, and New Taipei City. The accomplices Zhu, Yu, and Li were arrested and brought to the case. According to the investigation office of the Department, Li Sui ruled that he should be detained and forbidden to see him.

The police appealed that according to Article 6 of the Measures for Rewards and Punishments for the Prevention of Drug Hazards, the reward for drug reporting can be up to NT$10 million. The people of the country are encouraged to report illegal drug production and smuggling, and the whistleblower will be given a confidential identity.

At that time, the police used an aerial camera to search the marijuana garden, and then arrested the marijuana professor Yu Nan.

(Photographed by reporter Yao Yuehong)