{"id":17067,"date":"2025-10-29T14:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=17067"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:01:52","slug":"67-year-old-manchester-woman-charged-over-25kg-heroin-seizure-at-birmingham-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=17067","title":{"rendered":"67-Year-Old Manchester Woman Charged Over 25kg Heroin Seizure at Birmingham Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0A 67-year-old woman from Greater Manchester has been charged after 25 kilograms of heroin were discovered in a suitcase at Birmingham Airport, the UK\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as Zahida Perveen, a resident of Aldermoor Close in Openshaw, Manchester, was arrested on October 24 shortly after arriving on a flight from Pakistan. The narcotics were recovered from her luggage during a search by border officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NCA, Perveen has been charged with conspiracy to import Class A drugs. Two other individuals, Syed Shah, 39, a Border Force officer from Hodge Hill, Birmingham, and Shahid Butt, 52, from Saltley, Birmingham, have also been charged in connection with the case.<\/p>\n<p>Shah and Butt face additional charges of money laundering, authorities confirmed. The arrests followed a joint investigation by the NCA and Border Force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll three individuals have been charged with conspiracy to import Class A drugs, with Shah and Butt also facing money laundering charges,\u201d the NCA said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A 67-year-old woman from Greater Manchester has been charged after 25 kilograms of heroin were discovered in a suitcase at Birmingham Airport, the UK\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Monday. The suspect, identified as Zahida Perveen, a resident of Aldermoor Close in Openshaw, Manchester, was arrested on October 24 shortly after arriving on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,37],"tags":[9076,9078,894,9077,1242,9079],"class_list":["post-17067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-world","tag-birmingham-airport","tag-heroin-smuggling","tag-money-laundering","tag-national-crime-agency","tag-uk","tag-zahida-parveen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17069,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions\/17069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}