National investigation results in arrests of serious crime group

Three men were arrested after a joint investigation caught them smuggling £2m worth of marijuana from Jamaica to Birmingham Airport, the Border Force said.

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The group hid the smuggled substances in tins of fruit and have now received their sentences at Derby Crown Court — one of which was a 5-year jail term. They used a "religious organization" to smuggle the drugs in fruit tins, which was part of a wider network of organised crime and exploitation of many vulnerable people, according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

The matter was investigated by both the National Crime Agency and the Border Force with local police also involved.