{"id":6303,"date":"2011-11-30T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2011-11-30T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:41:28","slug":"lilongwe-intl-airport-police-intercept-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/30\/lilongwe-intl-airport-police-intercept-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilongwe Int&#8217;l Airport Police Intercept Cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cocaine_TOP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6305\" title=\"cocaine_TOP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cocaine_TOP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>LILONGWE: Airport police in Malawi have intercepted seven kilograms of cocaine hidden in television screens in arrivals Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One suspect, a Malawian woman arriving from India, has been arrested on suspicion that the illegal drug was hers.<\/p>\n<p>Airport police spokesperson Sergeant Peter Botha, told Zodiak Online that the suspect hid the dangerous drug in television screens to escape airport security checks.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has been identified as Annie Maria Masangano of Ntenje village in Traditional Authority Likoswe in Chiradzulu district.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Botha says Miss Masangano was coming from India on Ethiopian Airways via Addis Ababa and she was arrested upon arrival at KIA around 14hrs November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Masangano will appear in Lilongwe Magistrate Court on Thursday charged with importing dangerous drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Miss. Masangano is aged 24 and comes from Mtenje Village in Traditional Authority Likoswe in Chiladzulu district.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second incident arrested on charges of importing dangerous drugs into Malawi through Kamuzu International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi is thought to be a soft spot for drug traffickers largely owing to its porous borders and inferior systems.\u2014<strong>Zodiak Online<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LILONGWE: Airport police in Malawi have intercepted seven kilograms of cocaine hidden in television screens in arrivals Tuesday. &nbsp; One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1374,1166,258,197],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-airport","tag-drugs","tag-malawi","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}