Drugs bust on the Grand Princess

I read a shocking story in the paper today about the Grand Princess. It would seem a Jamaican crew member named Anthony Spence decided to supplement his wages and dabble in bit of drug smuggling.
He was caught trying to smuggle £80,000 worth of cocaine in to Britain. Customs officers found the haul hidden inside a pair of trainers in Spence’s luggage following a recent Mediterranean cruise.

It does make you wonder if cruise ships really have this issue under control as it seem we are hearing more and more stories like this and the crooks are targeting a whole range of ships.

Last year £1.4 million worth of cocaine some 35 kilos was found on board the MSC Poesia when she arrived in to the UK. Eight individuals from Latvia and Lithuania were arrested and back in January three crew members on board the Enchantment of the Seas we’re caught in Baltimore with $94,000 worth of Heroin and cocaine and
Thankfully it seems are border controls are hot on the tails of the smugglers but it does make me wonder how they manage to get the drugs on board in the first place. Obviously not all countries have the same security measures in place.