{"id":650,"date":"2026-04-01T20:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=650"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:19:31","slug":"nigerian-arrested-in-thessaloniki-with-large-amount-of-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/nigerian-arrested-in-thessaloniki-with-large-amount-of-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Arrested in Thessaloniki with Large Amount of Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, officers from the Crime Suppression and Investigation Sub-Directorate of Katerini located the detainee in the center of Thessaloniki. Packages containing raw cannabis with a total weight of 36.3 grams were found in his possession.<\/p>\n<p>According to information from the Hellenic Police (ELAS), during the search of his residence, officers discovered additional narcotics. Specifically, they found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Packages of raw cannabis weighing a total of 1 kilo and 229.7 grams.<\/li>\n<li>Packages of cocaine weighing a total of 134.5 grams.<\/li>\n<li>An electronic precision scale.<\/li>\n<li>A cash amount of 690 euros.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 50-year-old will face the charges against him and will be brought before the Thessaloniki Court of First Instance Prosecutor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Thessaloniki, police arrested a 50-year-old Nigerian man on drug trafficking charges, discovering over a kilo of cannabis, cocaine, cash, and a precision scale during a search of his home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[100,4024,242,138,149,14,519,538],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greece","tag-greece-conservative-parties","tag-hellenic-police","tag-migrants-criminality","tag-migration","tag-nigeria","tag-thessaloniki","tag-thessaloniki-court","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}