{"id":2085970,"date":"2025-10-12T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2085970"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:55:23","slug":"royal-navy-ship-stops-boat-carrying-35m-illegal-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-navy-ship-stops-boat-carrying-35m-illegal-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Navy ship stops boat carrying \u00a335m illegal drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A Plymouth-based ship has intercepted three small boats travelling across the Gulf of Oman carrying \u00a335m worth of illegal narcotics, the Royal Navy has said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Commando snipers from Bickleigh barracks were used to disable the boats and the Navy said it was the first time they had been called on to use non-lethal force in the specific area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said the crews on the small boats tried to throw their cargo into the water and speed away, with two of the skiffs subsequently abandoned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After disabling the third boat&#8217;s engine, teams found more than 1.5 tonnes (1,500kg) of drugs including heroin, crystal methamphetamine and cannabis concentrate hashish. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Plymouth-based ship has intercepted three small boats travelling across the Gulf of Oman carrying \u00a335m worth of illegal narcotics, the Royal Navy has said. Commando snipers from Bickleigh barracks were used to disable the boats and the Navy said it was the first time they had been called on to use non-lethal force in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2085971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Royal-Navy-ship-stops-boat-carrying-35m-illegal-drugs.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085972,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085970\/revisions\/2085972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}