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 Anambra State Police Command on sunday arrested a man susspected to be a security guard with the Nnewi Diocese of the Anglican Church,for being in possession of human parts.Speaking on the arrest,the Commissioner of Police in the state,Mr Sam Okaula,who declined to give the suspect's name,says he is a cannibal.''He is with us.Some human parts were found in his possession; and I think he is just a cannibal,said Okaula,before adding that there was no concrete evidence the suspect was trading in the parts.The Anglican Church has moved to disown the security guard,with the Venerable Godwin Agba,the administrative secretary of the Diocese of Nnewi Angican Communion,claiming the suspect was never their employee.A top security source who spoke to some pressmen said the bubble bust for the suspect when dogs on a hunting expedition sniffed out the alleged human parts at Ukunu Eziora Ozubulu community in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of the state.''An eyewitness said the suspect,whose name was not given,was seen by hunters,who had no premonition that a human killer was in the bush'',the source said.''The hunters were in the bush with their two dogs,which went ahead of them,only to come back to inform their owners with signs they interpreted to mean that there was an unusual discovery.When the hunters followed the dogs to a particular point in the bush,they were startled to see fresh dismembered human body,including the head,legs,hands and as well as clothes suspected to belong to victims.The hunters,including two persons identified as Paul and Chimezie,were sid to have rushed back home to contract members of Ozubulu vigilance group,who immediately followed them to the spot in the bush,but could not see those human parts anymore.After a long search,a man was seen in the bush,who happened to be a security man working at a higher institution under construction.He was confronted by a combined team of the hunters and vigilantes,who arrested him in connection with discovery''.After interrogation,he confessed that he roasted the human parts for his customers who would drive into the forest at wee hours to purchase both for rituals and for eating.The remains of the victims found with the suspect have been deposited at a mortuary as police continue with investigations.
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