{"id":29525,"date":"2025-06-02T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/record-haul-of-cocaine-found-inside-plush-toys-at-sri-lanka-airport-woman-arrested\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:34:38","slug":"record-haul-of-cocaine-found-inside-plush-toys-at-sri-lanka-airport-woman-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/record-haul-of-cocaine-found-inside-plush-toys-at-sri-lanka-airport-woman-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Record haul of cocaine found inside plush toys at Sri Lanka airport; woman arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s customs authorities arrested on Friday a woman and seized the largest haul of cocaine ever detected at the country&#8217;s main international airport, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed 38-year-old Thai woman was carrying nearly 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of cocaine stuffed into three plush toys, Customs Additional Director-General Seevali Arukgoda said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the biggest attempt at cocaine smuggling stopped by Sri Lanka Customs at the airport,&#8221; Arukgoda said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Customs officials at Bandaranaike International Airport posed for photos with the cocaine, which had been neatly stuffed into just over 500 plastic capsules, with an estimated street value of $1.72 million.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure follows three other hauls this month totaling nearly 60 kilograms of synthetic cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Three foreign nationals &#8212; from Britain, India, and Thailand &#8212; were arrested in separate cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton, identified as <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ex-flight-attendant-drug-kush-suitcases-sri-lanka-reports-say\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Charlotte May Lee<\/a><\/span>, 21, a former cabin crew member from London, was produced before a magistrate on Friday and further remanded until June 13, court officials said.<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested on May 12 when officials discovered that her two suitcases were packed with 46 kilograms of kush, a synthetic drug.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy8nj885l87o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lee told the BBC<\/a> she had travelled from Bangkok to Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital Colombo to renew her Thai visa. She described her living conditions at a prison in Negombo, a city just north of the capital, saying she spends most of her day inside, although she does get to go outside for fresh air.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have never been to prison and I&#8217;ve never been to Sri Lanka,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy8nj885l87o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">she told the BBC<\/a>. &#8220;This heat and just sitting on a concrete floor all of the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-twitter-tweet embed--float-none embed--size-medium lazyload\" data-require=\"third-party\/twitter-widgets\">\n<div class=\"embed__content-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">British woman accused of drug offences appears in Sri Lanka court <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s53nBjG2HZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/s53nBjG2HZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNews\/status\/1928496261306417418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>All four suspects, including the Thai woman arrested on Friday, could face life imprisonment if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan authorities have previously seized large quantities of heroin off the country&#8217;s shores, suggesting the island is being used as a transit hub for narcotics destined for other locations.<\/p>\n<p>In October, a Sri Lankan court sentenced 10 Iranian men to life imprisonment after they pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 111 kilograms of heroin. 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