Woman tries to hide £800k worth of drugs inside Parmesan cheese

A woman tried to smuggle crack cocaine worth £800k into the UK - by hiding the drugs inside a Parmesan cheese wheel. US national Jamie Choi was stopped by Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport on May 25 after arriving on a flight from Brazil.

Officers asked the 23-year-old from California about a Parmesan cheese wheel she was travelling with - which weighed a staggering 8kg. Choi claimed a friend had suggested she buy the cheese from Lima, Peru, for them to try, but when officers examined the wheel they found it contained crack cocaine.

Forensic analysis later revealed the drug to be 94 per cent pure, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. The investigation was referred to the NCA, whose officers identified that Choi had

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