{"id":166863,"date":"2025-12-04T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/166863\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"lithuanian-police-retrieve-19-balloons-used-by-smugglers-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/166863\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian police retrieve 19 balloons used by smugglers in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 4,\u00a0<em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Lithuanian police retrieved within a week 19 weather balloons used by cigarette smugglers, seizing 35,000 packs of cigarettes, <em>ELTA<\/em> reported quoting Police Commissioner General Ar\u016bnas\u00a0Paulauskas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police pulled over more than 4,500 vehicles and checked about 5,700 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kontrabanda-vsat-lrv-lt-3-12-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kontrabanda-vsat-lrv-lt-3-12-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kontrabanda-vsat-lrv-lt-3-12-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kontrabanda-vsat-lrv-lt-3-12-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kontrabanda-vsat-lrv-lt-3-12-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kontrabanda-vsat-lrv-lt-3-12.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> \u042d\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">\u042d\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Lithuanian border guards report three cigarette seizures on December 3<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">December 3, Pozirk. The Lithuanian Border Guard Service reported three separate seizures totaling more than 84,000 packs of contraband Belarusian cigarettes on December 3. More than 23,500 packs bearing Belarusian excise duty stamps\u2014or no stamps at all\u2014were discovered at a &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/166742\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 4,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0Lithuanian police retrieved within a week 19 weather balloons used by cigarette smugglers, seizing 35,000 packs of cigarettes, ELTA reported quoting Police Commissioner General Ar\u016bnas\u00a0Paulauskas. Police pulled over more than 4,500 vehicles and checked about 5,700 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":164826,"template":"","rubric":[17,30],"class_list":["post-166863","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-economy","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lithuanian police retrieve 19 balloons used by smugglers in a week | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 4,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0Lithuanian police retrieved within a week 19 weather balloons used by cigarette smugglers, seizing 35,000 packs of cigarettes, ELTA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/166863\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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