{"id":499460,"date":"2025-12-01T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499460"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:30:20","slug":"lithuanian-officers-intercept-11-weather-balloons-with-contraband-cigarettes-during-a-week-of-borderland-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-officers-intercept-11-weather-balloons-with-contraband-cigarettes-during-a-week-of-borderland-raids","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Officers Intercept 11 Weather Balloons With Contraband Cigarettes During a Week of Borderland Raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania\u2019s State Border Guard Service has summed up a week of anti-smuggling raids in border regions. The operations, carried out since 24 November, involve border guards, customs officers and police, including military police.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 11 weather balloons and 21,430 contraband cigarettes were seized over the week. During this period, officers inspected nearly 3,200 vehicles and almost 4,000 people. Forty-five reports were issued.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Vilnius Airport again ceased operations from Sunday evening until early Monday morning. Restrictions were imposed because of balloons that posed a threat to aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania\u2019s State Border Guard Service has summed up a week of anti-smuggling raids in border regions. The operations, carried out since 24 November, involve border guards, customs officers and police, including military police. A total of 11 weather balloons and 21,430 contraband cigarettes were seized over the week. During this period, officers inspected nearly 3,200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":499459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692d7c5289843.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Officers Intercept 11 Weather Balloons With Contraband Cigarettes During a Week of Borderland Raids"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}