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Marijuana Bust: Spaniard Smuggles 350 Pounds Of Weed In His 3 Children's Luggage From Los Angeles To The UK
Sunday, May 5, 2024 - 11:45am | 443A 51-year-old Spanish citizen was arrested on May 1 upon arrival at the United Kingdom’s Manchester Airport from Los Angeles with nearly 350 pounds of marijuana stashed into eight separate suitcases that were checked in under the names of his three children, who were traveling with him....
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Why Are So Many Americans Getting Caught Smuggling Weed From LAX To UK? Brits Link Surge To Drug Gangs
Monday, March 13, 2023 - 9:18pm | 552We’re up to at least 26 by now with numerous convictions being handed down as we speak. Smuggling large quantities of bulky weed stashed into suitcases that go through various detection machines seems a bit absurd. What's going on? What Happened: Over the course of one week in...
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Cannabis Couriers Busted In Heathrow From 9 LAX Flights, Connected Brits Wonder, How Could They Not Be?
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 9:36pm | 436Nine U.S. citizens have been arrested in London for smuggling large quantities of cannabis from Los Angeles to the UK, British officials announced on Jan. 17. The unsuccessful weed shipments were seized over the course of one week, beginning on Jan. 10, followed by another on Friday, two...
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DHL Adds Flight From LA To UK Hub
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - 10:45am | 358DHL Express this weekend will launch a weekly freighter flight from Los Angeles International Airport to its U.K. hub at East Midlands Airport, in response to rising demand for e-commerce shipments and the lost airlift associated with the widespread grounding of passenger fleets due to the...
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CBP Grabs Fake Shipment Of COVID-19 Test Kits At LAX
Monday, March 16, 2020 - 11:03am | 353Times of crisis bring out the best and worst in people, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the nation's ports of entry are on the lookout for the latter in cargo during the coronavirus outbreak. On March 14, CBP announced that two days earlier it had seized a package at the...
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Labor Protest To Block Some Airfreight Traffic At LAX Wednesday
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - 10:11am | 468Truck drivers trying to make deliveries to and from cargo warehouses at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday could experience delays from labor protests scheduled to occupy portions of surrounding roadways. The California local of the Service Employees International Union is organizing a...
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Cargo Project At LAX Airport Put On Back Burner, Official Confirms
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 5:12pm | 1251A long-overdue modernization of crowded and obsolete cargo warehouses at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has been shelved for 18 to 24 months because the number of major construction projects, mostly focused on passenger operations, is too overwhelming for the airport authority to manage at...
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Town Hall To Focus On Mounting Airfreight Bottlenecks In Los Angeles
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - 10:54am | 1735Shuttle trucks making cargo runs to Los Angeles International Airport frequently wait four hours, or more, to exchange a shipment. And the congestion is expected to get worse: construction from a massive transportation project to facilitate access at passenger terminals will disrupt some freight...
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Y'all Won't Stop Flying With Weed Through California's LAX Airport, Huh?
Thursday, May 16, 2019 - 12:04pm | 557By Brendan Bures. Have you ever googled “Can I Fly With Weed?” Don’t worry because you’re not alone, especially if it involves flying from a legal state like California. Police have seen trafficking arrests rise by 166% at LAX since California legalized cannabis in 2016,...
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Las Vegas Is The Most Searched Destination, Expedia Says
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 2:28pm | 361Las Vegas is the most popular destination searched on Expedia Inc (NASDAQ: EXPE), while Mexico is the preferred international destination for American travelers. "Whether a standalone search for flights, hotel, car rentals, or a money-saving package, travelers the world over are drawn to Sin City...
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Olympics May Not Produce Continuous Ratings Gold for NBC
Monday, August 13, 2012 - 8:45am | 479Although the Olympics are known to bring in hundreds of millions of viewers every four years, Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) may have banked too heavily on promoting NBC programs throughout the competition. According to The New York Times, NBC will be unable to maintain its currently high ratings from the...