Cannabis seized at British port


About £4.8 million ($7.3 million) worth of Cannabis have been seized by border control officers at the British Port of Tilbury, the BBC has reported.

According to reports, the 1.7 tonnes of drugs came from Cuba and were hidden inside a shipping container carrying molasses.

The container arrived via Jamaica and Rotterdam, the UK Border Agency said.

"It is not unusual for smugglers to hijack perfectly innocent shipments in the hope that they will evade detection, but our border officers are alert to these criminals' modus operandi," Goff Hicks, the agency's assistant director at the port told the BBC.

"This is a major detection that has not only prevented a sizeable quantity of harmful drugs from hitting the UK's streets, but also dealt a big financial blow to the smugglers."

According to reports, so arrests have been made.

The port used equipment including x-ray scanners to find the illegal goods hidden inside the containers.

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