Posted on 04/05/2023 8:06:35 PM PDT by Saije
A man from Mississauga, Ont., told British customs agents at Aberdeen airport he didn’t have the padlock codes to open his two suitcases, but officers forced them open anyway. Inside they found nearly 33 kilos of cannabis.
Pawlo Albanskyj, 29, was flying from Toronto to Birmingham, England, via Amsterdam, on Dec. 11, 2022, when his flight was rerouted to Aberdeen airport in Scotland, authorities said.
U.K. Border Force agents asked him about his suitcases when he stopped at customs before leaving the departure area, according to the National Crime Agency, a national police force in the United Kingdom.
Albanskyj said his luggage contained only clothes belonging to himself and his sister, who he was planning to visit in Slough, just outside London.
When asked to open them for inspection, he told officers he didn’t know the combination codes because they were his sister’s locks. He said he sent a text message to her for the codes but had not received a reply. Border agents cut the locks off and opened them.
Inside they found two T-shirts and vacuum-sealed plastic bags, each packed with 10 smaller packages, also wrapped in plastic.
When asked what was in the plastic bags, Albanskyj admitted they were stuffed with cannabis.
This time he was telling the truth. Laboratory tests confirmed 33 kilos of cannabis buds. British police estimated a street value of £295,000, which is equivalent to almost $500,000.
A police examination of his phone showed he was using an encrypted phone app to communicate with an unknown organizer about his travel and was being paid $8,000 to courier the cannabis on the trip.
Albanskyj pleaded guilty to being involved in the supply of cannabis in court on March 8, and, on April 5, he was sentenced to 32 months in His Majesty’s Prison.
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I would start with encrypted phone app.
The feds own the air, just like something else.
He should have identified as a woman over there. They let women who try to murder their boyfriends off scot free in that gynocentric hellhole called the UK. He would have gotten off with some community service, if anything.
That should be a breeze. Things will get harder when he gets out and the people he was muling for want restitution for $500k in weed.
I wonder what 32 months of inflation will do to that?
I hate the UK and Europe’s stance on weed. It’s not heroin or cocaine or meth. Just plain ignorance in most of world to this day.
How did that get in there?
That’s not my suitcase!!!
That’s my rope making materials.
Arriving from Amsterdam probably did it. Isn’t weed legal there? But if he really didn’t have the combo, he’s a mule and has got some real trouble coming either in prison or when he gets out.
NVM, I read further down. He is a mule.
$430 an ounce? Ouch.
Should have gone the "ingesting condoms stuffed with contraband"-route!
Regards,
I saw a video of Jim Belushi, John Belusi’s brother. He grows a lot of marijuana up in Oregon since 2015. He has 93 acres.
https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2022/01/jim-belushi-on-growing-belushi-his-oregon-cannabis-farm-and-marijuana-as-spiritual-medicine.html
Drugs killed his brother.
Cop math.
Based on the ounce being rolled and sold as individual joints and sold at inflated prices at music festivals.
When I was stationed in Sicily, a lot of hash came in from Amsterdam. I had a buddy that got busted while transporting, by the Carabinieri. He was holding copious quantities. Bad, bad situation. He could very well still be in prison there.
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