Police are concerned about what they describe as an alarming increase in the number of Asian students being used to traffic drugs.
A 17-year-old Auckland Grammar student is the latest to be charged with importing drugs and money laundering
The head of the Auckland drug squad, Detective Senior Sergeant Chris Cahill, says students are being offered money to pick up drugs imported though the mail."(The drug dealers) will offer up to a thousand dollars for a student to catch a parcel which might contain two to three kilos of Contact NT which is obviously being used to make methamphetamine."
Mr Cahill says drug dealers entice students by playing down the risk they face because of their age, when in fact the students can face jail terms.
