Heathrow cargo handlers 'involved in cocaine ring'

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(Reuters) - Eleven people were arrested in dawn raids on Wednesday in an operation to smash a multi-million pound drugs ring that used cargo handlers at Heathrow airport to help smuggle cocaine into Britain from Mexico, police said.

The drugs would arrive in London in cargo containers on flights from Mexico City, police added in a statement.

Once the aircraft arrived into the terminal, cargo handlers would quickly remove the drugs, which were boxed inside the container, before it was moved on.

Couriers would then liaise with the cargo handlers, collect the drugs and pass them on to accomplices responsible for distributing the drugs to local dealers
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/uk-britain-cocaine-idUKBRE99F0HY20131016?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401

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It hasn't been called 'Thief Row' for the past 60 years for nothing.

I once came home from work to find a new pair of velour curtains hanging in the living room. On enquiring of my wife how much she had splurged on them she replied, "Only £25: my friend Wendy got them for me." On learning that Wendy's husband was a baggage handler at Thief Row I made her return them immediately.