{"id":73471,"date":"2025-03-18T08:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73471"},"modified":"2025-03-18T08:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:06:56","slug":"are-the-workmen-on-your-road-all-that-they-seem-incredible-story-of-how-one-quiet-street-exposed-albanian-drug-kingpins-and-their-iron-grip-on-britains-drugs-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/18\/are-the-workmen-on-your-road-all-that-they-seem-incredible-story-of-how-one-quiet-street-exposed-albanian-drug-kingpins-and-their-iron-grip-on-britains-drugs-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the workmen on YOUR road all that they seem? Incredible story of how one quiet street exposed Albanian drug kingpins and their iron grip on Britain&#8217;s drugs trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/17\/15\/96279145-14507899-image-a-12_1742227024217.jpg\" alt=\"A cannabis farm used by the gang. In an operation spanning at least four years, the group siphoned off electricity worth millions of pounds\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When a group of workmen with liveried vans and wearing hi-vis jackets moved into Wellesley Road in Middlesbrough, no one gave them a second thought. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14507899\/Albanian-gangsters-ELECTRICIANS-cannabis-farms.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>When a group of workmen with liveried vans and wearing hi-vis jackets moved into Wellesley Road in Middlesbrough, no one gave them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Albanian-drug-workmen.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73473,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73471\/revisions\/73473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}