A Bay Area photographer, arrested in a crackdown on drug trafficking through London's Heathrow Airport, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in an English prison, officials announced Thursday.
Zered Akolo from Antioch was one of 11 people were detained at Heathrow between Tuesday January 10 and January 17 with more than 882 pounds of the drug seized in total.
But during a search of his two checked-in suitcases, Border Force officers discovered around 103 pounds of cannabis inside worth nearly $1 million on the streets. At a hearing at Isleworth Crown Court in west London, Akolo pleaded guilty and was sentenced him to 32 months in prison.
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