{"id":35477,"date":"2013-11-21T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T11:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=14bd96ef216150da6ae66b7710e6ff06"},"modified":"2013-11-21T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T11:57:38","slug":"news-story-cannabis-seized-at-felixstowe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=35477","title":{"rendered":"News story: Cannabis seized at Felixstowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Cannabis with an estimated street value of more than \u00a32.7m has been seized by Border Force officers at the Port of Felixstowe.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs, which had been shipped from the Netherlands, were concealed within a trailer carrying a legitimate cargo of potted plants.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure of the Class B drug was made on Friday (4 October) at 11pm. Herbal cannabis weighing 540kgs was found in 68 boxes spread among the potted plants. <\/p>\n<p>Phillip Holliday, Border Force Regional Director, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If proof were needed that drug smugglers are serious criminals it is provided by seizures of this scale. Make no mistake this is a big business that trades on human misery and we are working tirelessly to stop it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Seizures like this demonstrate how Border Force officers are at the forefront of the fight to keep illegal drugs and other banned substances off the streets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A 52-year-old man and a 41-year-old man, both from the Netherlands, were arrested on suspicion of the illegal importation of a Class B drug. They have been bailed while investigations, which are being carried out by the National Crime Agency\u2019s Border Policing Comand, continue.<\/p>\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border Force officers at Felixstowe seize cannabis worth over \u00a32.7m<\/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\/35477"}],"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=35477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}