{"id":183129,"date":"2026-04-10T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/183129\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:36:25","slug":"weather-balloons-with-smuggled-cigarettes-spotted-over-poland","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/183129\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather balloons with smuggled cigarettes spotted over Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>April 10, Pozirk. <\/strong>Poland spotted more than ten weather balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes from Belarus over the Podlaskie and Warmi\u0144sko Mazurskie Voivodeships, <em>RMF FM<\/em> reported.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomasz Krupa, a police officer in Bia\u0142ystok, warned locals not to approach or handle any balloons with attached boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police are investigating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From January 1 to March 23, Podlaskie border officers seized $897,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 10, Pozirk. Poland spotted more than ten weather balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes from Belarus over the Podlaskie and Warmi\u0144sko Mazurskie Voivodeships, RMF FM reported. Tomasz Krupa, a police officer in Bia\u0142ystok, warned locals not to approach or handle any balloons with attached boxes. Police are investigating. From January 1 to March 23, Podlaskie border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":183051,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-183129","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weather balloons with smuggled cigarettes spotted over Poland | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 10, Pozirk. 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