A British man has been busted trying to smuggle a suitcase stuffed with cannabis from Bangkok to Newcastle as cops crack down on a fast-developing drug route from the Thai capital.
The arrest took place at Vienna International Airport, a city airport on the outskirts of the Austrian capital on 27th May.
The 31-year-old suspect was stopped during a transit stop on his way to Newcastle via Frankfurt and was led away in handcuffs to be locked up in preventive custody at the Korneuburg prison.
Customs officers found 11.3 kilograms (24.9lb) of cannabis packed into 13 vacuum-sealed parcels concealed among clothes in the man’s suitcase.
The suitcase had been checked in at Bangkok and was labelled for onward travel to Frankfurt and Newcastle.
