Every year, illegal narcotics circle around the globe fuelled by the demand of more than a million users.?
In response to demand and to keep the supply channel working round the clock, traffickers across the world burn the midnight oil to devise ways in which they can pull a wool over the eyes of airport security.?
In a similar attempt, a man from the US tried to pass Marijuana as Christmas gifts and got royally busted.?
The man was held at Nashville International Airport in Tennessee, for carrying over 80 pounds of marijuana disguised as Christmas gifts.?
Somphone Temmeraj, 57, was the man carrying marijuana.?Officers and a K-9 smelled a strong odour of marijuana coming from three bags, according to the documents.??The officers said they saw Temmeraj pick up the bags and load them onto a cart
Temmeraj allowed officers to search the bags, which were filled with what appeared to be wrapped Christmas gifts. The items were actually filled with vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana weighing 84 pounds (38 kilograms), authorities said.
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Temmeraj also had two additional phones and Rs 1,13,572? in cash with him. After finding the 84-pound green leafy substance wrapped as Christmas gifts in the double vacuum-sealed bag, the officials asked him what he did for a living, to which Temmeraj responded “this” - implying that he deals in marijuana to earn money.?
According to online records, he was booked into jail and released on Tuesday morning on a bond. It is not sure if he had a lawyer who could comment on his behalf.?
In a similar incident, authorities at the Islamabad airport foiled a drug-smuggling attempt after the suspect used peanut shells to hide cannabis and, well, failed miserably.
According to reports, the smuggler named Riaz was arrested on the spot. He was reportedly carrying three to four packets and the weight of the seized drug was 900 grams.
In another bizarre case, a woman in Argentina faked a pregnancy to carry marijuana! The woman was carrying cannabis weighing over 5 kg in her fake baby bump.?
Her fake baby bump contained 15 packets of marijuana! Patricia Bullrich, Minister of Security in Argentina, tweeted pictures of the woman with her fake bump that was used to carry the drug.?