Russia’s ‘Breaking Bad’ Drug Op Was Busted by Accident
MOSCOW—A Russian policeman has stumbled on what authorities are calling the biggest cache of synthetic drugs discovered in Russia this year: two metric tons of ready-to-use product and more than four tons of partially manufactured drug known as “salts” or “bath salts” derived from Chinese-sourced chemicals.
That the discovery was an accident tells you a lot about law enforcement here.
Captain Dmitry Petrov pushed open the door to what he thought was an illegal auto parts business in the village of Obukhovets, population 150, in the Leningrad region. His specialty is vehicle thefts and chop shops. He told The Daily Beast that he had served for 25 years on the police force but had never investigated any drug cases at all.