{"id":91982,"date":"2026-07-17T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91982"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:42:42","slug":"young-people-offered-holidays-to-smuggle-drugs-border-force-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/17\/young-people-offered-holidays-to-smuggle-drugs-border-force-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people offered holidays to smuggle drugs, Border Force warns"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA283ugn.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"Border Force believes criminal gangs are \u2018specifically targeting\u2019 school and university leavers on social media and offering cheap or free holidays. (Reuters)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UK Border Force has warned that criminal gangs are targeting young people via social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, grooming them into cannabis smuggling. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/young-people-offered-holidays-to-smuggle-drugs-border-force-warns\/ar-AA283eRQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a5a1076492e4496a97e1b81063bae19&ei=28\">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>UK Border Force has warned that criminal gangs are targeting young people via social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, grooming them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/George-Wilson-Thailand-drugs.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91982","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=91982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91983,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91982\/revisions\/91983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}