Ex-officer prosecuted

FORMER chief of a law enforcement unit in Bantian Subdistrict, Longgang District, was prosecuted for allegedly abusing power and taking bribes, according to a notice from Shenzhen People’s Procuratorate on Tuesday.

Longgang prosecutors started an investigation into alleged crimes of the suspect, surnamed Su, in October 2014. But Su had been on the run since then and later surrendered in June this year.

Knives, guns destroyed

SHENZHEN Municipal Public Security Bureau destroyed a total of 37, 660 controlled knives and 728 homemade guns in Bao’an District on Wednesday. Since March this year, police have busted a total of 483 gun or knife related cases. Amidst an action in August, police busted 125 knife-related cases and 177 people were questioned.

Fugitive caught

A MAN who had been on the run for 23 years for homicide and became the richest person in Mashan County, Guangxi, was caught recently by Bao’an police. On Dec. 1, 1994, a man surnamed Wang was robbed, stabbed and killed by four suspects in Shajing, Bao’an District. Two suspects were caught and jailed, while two others, both surnamed Huang, were still on the run. Bao’an police re-initiated the case and officer Ye Xuesong, who led a task force, found evidence of the two suspects visiting the suspects’ hometown. In a two-month investigation, the task force discovered that the two suspects changed their names in 1994 after the robbery, and one of them had become the richest person in the county by running water and mining factories. The two suspects were caught Aug. 16, one near a local hospital, the other in an up-market housing estate. The case is still under investigation.