Whether it’s murder weapons or bodies dumped, there is something about canals that seems to appeal to the criminal imagination.

Maybe that’s why a 16-year-old arrested for drug dealing in Banteay Meanchey province’s Mongkol Borei district on Saturday chose his local shallow waterway for shifting some gear.

Police confiscated two bags of methamphetamine weighing 2.3 grams from the school truant, and sent both the suspect and the evidence to the police station.

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