TEXAS MAN ARRESTED WITH 75 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA IN LUGGAGE WHILE FLYING TO LONDON, POLICE SAY. (PHOTO).
Texas man arrested with 75 pounds of marijuana in luggage while flying to London, police say A Texas man was arrested at Miami International Airport after authorities found 75 pounds of marijuana in his luggage before he could board a flight to London. Harrison O’Neill Tiernan, 23, from Austin, was charged with cannabis trafficking. He was traveling to Heathrow Airport and had checked two suitcases for his British Airways flight. Inspectors discovered 65 vacuum-sealed packages containing a green, leafy substance later confirmed to be marijuana. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped Tiernan while he attempted to board the flight, and he acknowledged that the bags were his. Authorities noted the inspections were part of broader efforts at the airport due to high outbound narcotics activity. In total, Tiernan was carrying 34.01 kilograms, or 74.98 pounds, of marijuana. Homeland Security initially declined the case because the amount did not meet the federal threshold, a...
The Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team {IRT} has again that have terrorized Kogi State and its environs and rescued four kidnapped victims at different locations in Kogi State.In a special intelligence led operation conducted by the operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the IGP's Monitoring Unit at different black spots in Kogi State,three members of a notorious kidnap gang that has for a while operated in major cities in Kogi and neighbouring States were trailed and arrested at their hideouts in the outskirt of Egume and Anyimgba Towns in Kogi State.The leader of the gang who gave his name as Ibrahim Nasarawa led the operatives of Intelligence Response Team to their den where Edward Abutu Amedu was held hostage.On sighting the Operatives,the armed guards who were stationed by the gang to keep watch over their victims opened fire on the Police and the operatives responded and overpowered them in a tactical operation that saw three members of the kidnap gang suffer fatal injuries while their victim was rescued unhurt.Sadly,Two {2] of our men sustained gunshot injuries and are currently responding to treatment in the hospital while the other members of the gang escaped with bullet wound.In another coordinated operation based on credible intelligence generated by Operatives of the intelligence Response Team,three members of a dare-devil kidnap gang that abducted Mrs Mayo Ohem,Nichodemus Kadiri and Miss Victoria Abdul from Acharu Egume area of Kogi State were arrested and their confession led t the rescue of the victims who were incacerated in the kidnappers camp from where they demanded a ransom of twenty million naira.The rescued victims who sustained various degrees of injuries in the hands of the abductors are now receiving treatment in the Hospital.
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