{"id":642402,"date":"2026-06-16T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642402\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:18:13","slug":"record-breaking-139m-cannabis-seizure-prompts-arrests-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642402\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking \u00a3139m cannabis seizure prompts arrests in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The investigation was launched after the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) intercepted a shipment of cannabis destined for the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Investigators later identified two containers which had 12 tonnes of cannabis stored in 1,200 boxes, in transit to Southampton Port.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South West Regional Organised Unit (SWROCU) then executed warrants at the three suspects&#8217; homes in south Wales on 16 June.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All three suspects were arrested on suspicion of facilitating the importations and are currently in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK government minister for migration and citizenship, Mike Tapp MP, described the seizure as &#8220;record-breaking&#8221; and said the importing of drugs to the UK was a &#8220;vile trade&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The investigation was launched after the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) intercepted a shipment of cannabis destined for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-642402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}