By DPA
Wellington : A 17-year-old New Zealand schoolboy of Chinese origin was Friday sentenced to four years of imprisonment for importing methamphetamine, a banned drug, hidden in a package of hair-dryers shipped from Guangzhou, news reports said.
Chun Lee, also known as Larry Lee, was a student at Auckland’s Takapuna Grammar School in April when he imported 272 gm of the illegal drug, also known by the street names ice or P.
Lee, who was working for an international crime ring, was expelled by the school after being charged, Radio New Zealand reported.
New Zealand police have declared methamphetamine the country’s biggest drug problem and it has been blamed for a spate of murders and other violent offences.
Lee, who was sentenced by the Auckland High Court, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing where police said electrical components in the hair-dryers had been removed and the drug concealed in small tins in their place.