{"id":537260,"date":"2026-04-28T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=537260"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:26:58","slug":"polish-border-guards-detain-six-including-belarusian-over-airborne-cigarette-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-border-guards-detain-six-including-belarusian-over-airborne-cigarette-smuggling","title":{"rendered":"Polish Border Guards Detain Six, Including Belarusian, Over Airborne Cigarette Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Podlaskie Border Guard unit reported the detention of six people involved in cigarette smuggling using weather balloons. All detainees have been placed in custody.<\/p>\n<p>According to the border guards, a Belarusian citizen and a Lithuanian citizen were detained in the area of Gr\u00f3dek. They had arrived to collect 3,000 packs of cigarettes delivered by a weather balloon from Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, two Polish citizens were detained in Jasion\u00f3wka after arriving to collect a similar shipment.<\/p>\n<p>In Sok\u00f3\u0142ka, border guards stopped a Volkswagen for inspection. Two Lithuanian citizens were found to be carrying 4,000 packs of cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, Polish border guards have detained 22 people in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in connection with airborne smuggling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_537237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-537237\" style=\"width: 1145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-537237 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-43972.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1145\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-43972.jpg 1145w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-43972-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-43972-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-43972-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1145px) 100vw, 1145px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-537237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Border Guard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s Podlaskie Border Guard unit reported the detention of six people involved in cigarette smuggling using weather balloons. All detainees have been placed in custody. According to the border guards, a Belarusian citizen and a Lithuanian citizen were detained in the area of Gr\u00f3dek. They had arrived to collect 3,000 packs of cigarettes delivered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":537259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69f08b75cfd01.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Border Guards Detain Six, Including Belarusian, Over Airborne Cigarette Smuggling"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537260","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=537260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}