The Daily Mail
Four British tourists have been arrested in Thailand for allegedly trying to smuggle cannabis stuffed in seven giant suitcases to the UK.
The Brits were pulled aside by suspicious security guards just before they boarded their flight at the airport on the island of Koh Samui yesterday.
Shocked officials opened the 32-inch long cases to find hundreds of vacuum-sealed bags packed with fresh cannabis buds that had been grown at a farm on the popular island.
The total haul – legal in the country but a crime to export – is said to have weighed 144kg.
Authorities identified the suspects as British passengers Mark Siemaszkiewicz, 46, Richard McMahon, 46, Oluwatosin Peace Adefila, 27, and Bose Esther Fakuade, 26.
They are accused to trying to take the marijuana out of the country via a connecting flight to London Heathrow.
A police spokesman said: ‘Mr Mark and Mr Richard were in possession of two suitcases each containing vacuum-sealed bags of cannabis flowers totalling 85 kilogrammes. They were planning to transport the cannabis to London as part of a debt-clearing arrangement.
‘Miss Peace and Miss Esther, also British citizens, each carried one suitcase containing cannabis flowers (totalling 36 kilograms) for the same destination, London’.
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