Failed drug smuggling attempts
Published:Thursday | January 6, 2011 | 12:53 PM
Border Agency officials in Britain have released information about failed bids to hide drugs in packages and smuggle them into the UK.
Officials say one of the more unusual attempts saw drug smugglers trying to transport a kilo of cannabis within a wooden framed painting of Manchester City footballer Emmanuel Adebayor.
The list also includes drug smuggling attempts from the Caribbean.
In one case, 1.1 kilos of cocaine was found concealed in packets of peanuts and cashew nuts in freight at London’s Gatwick Airport.
The drugs had been sent from Jamaica.
The find led to a 50-year-old man being jailed for seven years.
In another incident, a 45-year-old self-employed mechanic from Trinidad and Tobago was arrested shortly after he arrived at Gatwick last month, when one kilo of liquid cocaine was found inside two bottles of Bailey’s Irish Cream that he was carrying.