{"id":37795,"date":"2014-01-15T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3c9408af6b7d2eabd529f770ec5f373f"},"modified":"2014-01-15T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T11:56:06","slug":"news-story-cocaine-seized-by-border-force-at-gatwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37795","title":{"rendered":"News story: Cocaine seized by Border Force at Gatwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The drugs, which were discovered on Thursday 9 January, once cut and sold on the streets had a potential value of \u00a3130,000.<\/p>\n<p>Officers stopped a 29-year-old Portuguese man, Marcos Martins-Goes, who had arrived on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil.  After questioning him officers searched both luggage and Mr Martins-Goes, and discovered the drugs within the clothing he was wearing.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Martins-Goes was arrested, and the investigation was passed to the National Crime Agency for further enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared at Croydon Magistrates Court on 10 January.  He pleaded guilty and will be sentenced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Carole Upshall, Director of Border Force South said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Cocaine is a vile and destructive drug, which ruin the lives of users and the wider community.<br \/>\nBorder Force officers are on constant alert to keep illegal drugs and other banned substances out of the UK.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone with information about activity they suspect may be linked to smuggling should call the smuggling Hotline on 0800 59 5000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has appeared in court after Border Force officers at Gatwick seized approximately 1.3 kilos of cocaine.<\/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\/37795"}],"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=37795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}