{"id":8670,"date":"2024-11-13T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/six-arrested-after-multi-million-pound-birmingham-airport-drug-seizure\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T13:07:00","slug":"six-arrested-after-multi-million-pound-birmingham-airport-drug-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/six-arrested-after-multi-million-pound-birmingham-airport-drug-seizure\/","title":{"rendered":"Six arrested after multi-million pound Birmingham Airport drug seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianexpress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Border-sign-3_cropped_24-jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51002\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six people have been arrested and charged following a major drug seizure at Birmingham International Airport.\u2028&nbsp;\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Crime Agency (NCA) officers made the arrests on Monday 11 November, seizing suitcases containing around 180 kilos of cocaine.\u2028&nbsp;\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The six, two men and three women from Bradford, West Yorkshire, and a man from Halesowen in the West Midlands, were questioned by NCA investigators before being charged with conspiring to import class A drugs late yesterday.\u2028\u00a0\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They will appear before Birmingham Magistrates later today (Wednesday 13 November).\u2028&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2028NCA Branch Commander Mick Pope said: \u201cThis was a significant drug seizure, which prevented class A drugs worth many millions of pounds from reaching the hands of criminals in the UK.\u2028&nbsp;\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIllegal drugs like cocaine fuel violence and exploitation in our communities, and we are determined to do all we can to protect the public by targeting those involved in their supply.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people have been arrested and charged following a major drug seizure at Birmingham International Airport.\u2028&nbsp;\u2028 National Crime Agency (NCA) officers made the arrests on Monday 11 November, seizing suitcases containing around 180 kilos of cocaine.\u2028&nbsp;\u2028 The six, two men and three women from Bradford, West Yorkshire, and a man from Halesowen in the West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[148,2793,3872,75,3873,78,153,408,81,65,147,3874,86],"class_list":["post-8670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-airport","tag-birmingham-airport-drugs","tag-bradford","tag-drugs-seizure","tag-lancashire","tag-leeds","tag-london","tag-manchester","tag-midlands","tag-nca","tag-west-midlands","tag-yorkshire"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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