{"id":83650,"date":"2017-08-23T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=41d8d9d95efb44f5f7b091efce3ab30e"},"modified":"2017-08-23T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:54:12","slug":"press-release-man-jailed-for-attempting-to-smuggle-cannabis-through-edinburgh-airport-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83650","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Man jailed for attempting to smuggle cannabis through Edinburgh airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Yong Keh Kee, from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was stopped by Border Force officers as he travelled from Madrid on 28 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>When they questioned him and examined two of his suitcases they found 10 vacuum packed packages containing cannabis leaves wrapped in towels.<\/p>\n<p>The cannabis has a street value of \u00a3100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Murdo MacMillan, Head of Border Force Scotland, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The vigilance of our officers has prevented a significant quantity of drugs entering the UK and ending up on our streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Working with partners from the National Crime Agency (<abbr title=\"National Crime Agency\">NCA<\/abbr>) we will continue to do all we can to prevent drug smuggling and bring those responsible to justice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cannabis is a class B drug which it is illegal to import, supply, or possess with intent to supply.<\/p>\n<p>Following the seizure by Border Force, the investigation was passed to the <abbr title=\"National Crime Agency\">NCA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Thomas, <abbr title=\"National Crime Agency\">NCA<\/abbr> Scotland Branch Commander said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Drug trafficking fuels violence and exploitation and we are determined to work with law enforcement colleagues to protect the public from that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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 \u2013 as well as visual searches \u2013 to find well-hidden stowaways, illegal drugs, firearms and tobacco which would otherwise end up causing harm to local people, businesses and communities.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about activity they suspect may be linked to smuggling should call the hotline on 0800 59 5000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old man has been jailed for 18 months at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for attempting to smuggle approximately 10 kilos of cannabis through Edinburgh 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\/83650"}],"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=83650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}