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Ben-Gurion Airport luggage backlog leads police to suitcase full of drugs

by  Reuters and ILH Staff
Published on  08-12-2022 11:01
Last modified: 08-12-2022 10:25
Ben-Gurion Airport luggage backlog leads police to suitcase full of drugsAlan Shiver

Luggage is seen on a carousel at Ben-Gurion International Airport on June 27, 2022 (illustrative) | File photo: Alan Shiver

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The global backlog in airline baggage loading has had a silver lining for Israeli police, who discovered a drug haul hidden in a suitcase that was X-rayed after it arrived a day late and went unclaimed.

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The tinfoil-wrapped seven kg (15 lb) of amphetamines worth some $600,000 were in a false bottom of the bag, which police allowed to be sent from Ben-Gurion Airport to the Jerusalem address its owner had listed in his lost-and-found complaint, Kan TV said.

The suspect turned up to retrieve it and was arrested.

"We are in a period where many people having been losing their suitcase - and he was one of them," police investigator Eran Asraf told Kan.

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