A would-be drug dealer failed to win the sympathy of local police when he lied that his wife had betrayed him and come to the city to earn a living by prostitution, Shanghai Morning Post reports.

When police approached him on the street and asked him to present his temporary residency permit, Tian said he did not have it, then started to cry that he had come to Shanghai to look for his wife who was working as a prostitute there.

When the officers tried to search him in accordance with the law, Tian refused to co-operate and stuffed his fist into his jacket pocket. Police later found 15 grams of heroin in the pocket.

Tian was released from prison in 2001 after serving seven years for robbery. He had travelled to Shanghai to deal in drugs.

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