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A K9 alerted CBP officers to marijuana in a traveler\u2019s checked baggage at BWI airport. (Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection)<\/p>\nIn each case, officers inspected baggage being loaded onto Heathrow Airport-bound flights, detected the marijuana, identified them through their baggage tags, and detained them at their departure gates.<\/p>\n
Almost 250 pounds of marijuana was recently intercepted from four London-bound flights from BWI Marshall Airport.<\/p>\n
A K9 alerted CBP officers to marijuana in a traveler\u2019s checked baggage at BWI airport. (Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection)<\/p>\n
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP officers discovered 116 pounds of marijuana on Feb. 6 in the baggage of a pair of travelers from Baltimore; 73 pounds on March 11 in the baggage of a Los Angeles couple; 29 pounds on March 16 in the baggage of a United Kingdom woman; and 29 pounds on March 19 in a Baltimore man\u2019s luggage.<\/p>\n
In each case, officers inspected baggage being loaded onto Heathrow Airport-bound flights, detected the marijuana, identified them through their baggage tags and detained them at their departure gates.<\/p>\n
CBP said the U.K woman was determined to be inadmissible, removed and barred from returning to the U.S. The agency said U.S. citizen travelers were released, although investigations continue<\/a>, and the subjects may be charged later.<\/p>\n Two CBP narcotics detector dogs alerted officers in two of the marijuana seizures. Ozzy, a 3-year-old male American black Labrador alerted to the Baltimore man\u2019s baggage on the March 19 seizure, and Letti, a nearly 2-year-old female German shepherd alerted to the Los Angeles couple\u2019s baggage in the March 11 seizure.<\/p>\n According to a CBP news release, the marijuana seized had a street value of about $675,000 in the U.S., \u201calthough high-quality weed could fetch prices two to three times higher in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n The agency said it\u2019s seeing a trend of transnational criminal organizations attempting to transport marijuana through passenger baggage and express air deliver to Europe.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you smuggle drug loads for criminal organizations, we will catch you and you will face criminal consequences. Don\u2019t be a fool and do jail time for uncaring gangs that see you as cheap, disposable labor,\u201d said Adam Rottman, CBP\u2019s area port director in Baltimore.<\/p>\n