Eleven people have been charged in total, said the National Crime Agency
Eleven people - including a man from Salford and a Canadian professional volleyball player - have been charged with smuggling cannabis into the UK, police have said.
The National Crime Agency said officials seized a total of more than 300kg of the drug after arresting air passengers coming in to Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Saturday and Sunday. The operations follow warnings from the NCA last month that the amount of cannabis seized in luggage at UK airports had tripled in less than a year. In August the NCA revealed that so far in 2024 around 15 tonnes of the drug had been uncovered at airports, compared to five tonnes throughout the whole of 2023, and two tonnes in 2022.
They are: Lambert; Paige Jonas-Willingham, 21, of no fixed abode; professional volleyball player Raekelle Powell, 22, from Toronto, Canada; Victoria Roberson, 35, from California, United States; Siobhan McTavey, 24, of Makem Park, Keady, County Armagh; Chew Meu Wong, 50, from Malaysia; Christopher Duffell, 44, from Canada; Tania Fetherston, 51, from Canada; and Siew Fong Chua, 43, from Malaysia. They will next appear at Isleworth Crown Court on October 24.
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