Updated Saturday, May 31, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

Traveller returns cannabis after Japan customs blunder

TOKYO -- An unsuspecting traveller who walked away from a Tokyo airport with one million yen’s worth of cannabis due to a customs blunder has returned the drugs, an official said Friday. The passenger, identified only as a foreign person, was “extremely cooperative” and handed the drugs back to authorities after being informed of the mistake, a customs spokeswoman said. An officer at Narita International Airport on Sunday stuffed 142 grams (five ounces) of the drug into the side pocket of a randomly selected black suitcase coming off an overseas flight for a sniffer dog to find.

The animal failed the test and the 38-year-old customs officer forgot which bag it was put in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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