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BBC News
3 days ago
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Cardiff Royal Mail sorting office workers find 18 bags of cannabis
Cannabis packages posted from California to addresses in Cardiff were discovered at a Royal Mail sorting office, a court has at a trial at Newport Crown Court were told millions of pounds worth of cannabis, some in packages labelled as Yankee Candles, were smuggled into the defendants, Mohammed Hussain, 28, and Abu Hussain, 28, changed their plea on Thursday and admitted conspiring to import the class B other defendants, Sean Montgomery, 24, and Steven Munroe, 44, deny all charges against them. On Friday the court heard both men told police they had no knowledge of what was inside the packages. Jurors heard from PC Lucy Lloyd who said 18 bags of vacuum packed cannabis were found by postal workers at the Cardiff sorting weighed the bags and found there was just over 8kg (17lb) of cannabis at the site on Penarth four men, from Cardiff, were charged with smuggling more than 300kg (661lb) of cannabis from California and New York into the UK using the postal service. On Friday the court heard the statement Mr Montgomery provided to police officers when he was denied supplying or importing class B drugs and denied being a member of an organised crime admitted going to the Royal Mail depot in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, but said he was not there to collect the parcels, just to check they were said: "I do not know what the parcels I was enquiring about were". Jurors were also read a transcript of the police interview with Mr Munroe, who denied supplying or importing class B drugs and denied being a member of an organised crime said he took in a parcel for a neighbour but "didn't have a clue" what was Hussain and Abu Hussain have pleaded guilty to supplying a controlled class B drug and conspiracy to import class B Montgomery and Mr Munroe deny both case continues.
BBC News
4 days ago
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Cardiff: Two men admit smuggling cannabis labelled as Yankee Candles
Two men have admitted conspiring to import millions of pounds worth of cannabis labelled as "Yankee Candles" from America to south Wales. Four men were charged with importing more than 300kg (661lb) of cannabis using a postal service and previously denied the claim, but Mohammed Hussain, 28 and Abu Hussain, 28, both from Cardiff, changed their plea to guilty on two had already pleaded guilty to supplying the class B drug, but jurors at Newport Crown Court found both men guilty of conspiracy to import class B drugs. Both will be sentenced at a later date, while the two other defendants, Sean Montgomery, 24, and Steven Munroe, 44, still deny both charges against them. At the beginning of the trial, Prosecutor Roger Griffiths told the court this was "drug dealing on an industrial scale".The court heard that 22 packages from California and New York ended up in a Royal Mail depot in Barry labelled as Yankee Wednesday a police officer told the court he went to the Barry depot to view fourteen suspicious packages which were labelled as having "Yankee Candles inside".However, "they were too light to be candles", and the addresses, which were earmarked for bogus addresses across south Wales, did not match the officer said they contained "vacuum sealed" packages used to transport case continues.
