{"id":16147,"date":"2013-06-13T15:27:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=947dd9bc498cb852d6a16fd33ca02ea1"},"modified":"2013-06-13T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:27:39","slug":"news-story-two-in-court-after-huge-manchester-airport-drugs-seizures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=16147","title":{"rendered":"News story: Two in court after huge Manchester Airport drugs seizures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Officers believe the seizure of 35 kilos of heroin &#8211; found in a chapatti making machine &#8211; is the largest single detection of class A drugs at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure, with an estimated street value of \u00a31.6million, was made on 7 June when officers searched a chapatti making machine belonging to a passenger aboard a flight from Pakistan and found the heroin.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Khalid, a 43-year-old British man from Birmingham was charged with importation of a Class A drug, namely heroin.  He appeared at Trafford Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday 10 June where he was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester Crown Court (Minshull Street) on 1 July.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"drug-seizure\">Drug seizure<\/h2>\n<p>The previous day (6 June) officers discovered approximately 15 kilos of cocaine, which has an estimated street value of just under \u00a3700,000, after they searched a bag belonging to a passenger arriving from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch national, Hendrikus Marius Van-Achthoven, 49, from Holland was charged with importation of a Class A drug, namely cocaine.  He appeared at Trafford Magistrates\u2019 Court on Friday 7 June where he was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester Crown Court (Minshull Street) on 28 June.  <\/p>\n<p>Sam Bullimore, Border Force Assistant Director at Manchester Airport, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These significant seizures have ensured that a sizeable amount of drugs have been kept off our streets. We believe the heroin find is the biggest-ever single seizure of its kind at Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We will continue to work to keep our border secure and to make life as tough as possible for those who seek to profit from this evil trade.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"border-force\">Border Force<\/h3>\n<p>Border Force officers use hi-tech search equipment to combat immigration crime and detect banned and restricted goods that smugglers attempt to bring into the country. <\/p>\n<p>They use an array of search techniques including sniffer dogs, carbon dioxide detectors, heartbeat monitors and scanners &#8211; as well as visual searches &#8211; to find well-hidden stowaways, illegal drugs, firearms and cigarettes which would otherwise end up causing harm to local people, businesses and communities.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about suspected smuggling should contact our hotline on 0800 59 5000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/announcements?keywords=&amp;announcement_type_option=news-stories&amp;topics%5B%5D=all&amp;departments%5B%5D=home-office\" title=\"Home Office news\">Read more Home Office news<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroin and cocaine with an estimated street value of over \u00a32.3million has been seized by Border Force at Manchester Airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}