A U.K. man has been sentenced to just shy of four years’ incarceration after getting nabbed for receiving $368,880 worth of cannabis hidden inside wheels. But the hidden cannabis proved no match for drug-sniffing police dogs, the court heard. While not wheels specifically, CBP officers in California seized more than a half tonne of cannabis hidden in a shipment of wheel parts from Mexico in December 2018. In 2015 in Arizona, CBP officers arrested two Douglas teenagers after finding marijuana hidden in their bike tires, per The Arizona Republic. The man reportedly told police that he knew the wheels contained some kind of drugs, but he didn’t know what the stash was worth.
A U.K. man has been sentenced to just shy of four years’ incarceration after getting nabbed for receiving $368,880 worth of cannabis hidden inside wheels.
According to BBC, the man pleaded guilty to being involved in importing cannabis, the recreational form of which is illegal throughout the U.K.
Indeed, supplying or producing weed, a Class B drug, carries a top penalty of 14 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both, while the maximum punishment for possession of the plant is five years in prison,...
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