In an unexpected twist that sounds straight out of a Hollywood thriller, an Irish woman finds herself in a Norwegian jail after attempting to smuggle a whopping amount of cannabis—nearly 30 kilogrammes, no less—from Thailand. This stash, valued at an eye-watering 600,000 euros (or about 22.5 million baht), was cleverly (or not so cleverly) packed into two tremendously overstuffed suitcases. Some reports buzz with a different number—41.7 kilos! But, let’s not get caught up in the weeds. Meet Jamie Mahon from Moneymore, Drogheda, Co Louth—an unsuspecting 32-year-old who probably thought she’d smoothly glide through Oslo’s Gardermoen Airport, but alas, reality plotted a different flight path. On January 9 this year, Mahon had barely disembarked her flight from bustling Bangkok when customs officials spotted something fishy during an X-ray scan of her luggage. Indeed, the reason for the bulkiness of her suitcases became glaringly obvious. They were loaded with cannabis—a haul…
