{"id":30921,"date":"2019-12-17T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30921"},"modified":"2019-12-17T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:02:10","slug":"three-accused-of-trying-to-smuggle-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/three-accused-of-trying-to-smuggle-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Accused of Trying To Smuggle Cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have been arrested which includes a Heathrow Airport security worker accused of trying to smuggle cocaine worth \u00a32 million into the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Junaed Ghani Dar, 41, from Slough, was arrested at the airport&#8217;s Terminal 2 on Saturday 14 December along with Michael Williams, 34, and Jessica Waldron, 33, who are both from Dudley in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>The trio were charged with attempting to import class A drugs and appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates&#8217; Court on Monday 16 December, the National Crime Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>They are to appear at Isleworth Crown Court on January 16.<\/p>\n<p>NCA branch commander Steve McIntyre said: &#8220;Class A drugs fuel violence and exploitation in our communities. Stopping them reaching the streets is a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a sizeable seizure, likely worth in excess of \u00a32 million at UK prices once cut and distributed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have been arrested which includes a Heathrow Airport security worker accused of trying to smuggle cocaine worth \u00a32 million into the UK. Junaed Ghani Dar, 41, from Slough, was arrested at the airport&#8217;s Terminal 2 on Saturday 14 December along with Michael Williams, 34, and Jessica Waldron, 33, who are both from Dudley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}