{"id":140308,"date":"2020-04-15T16:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/15\/coronavirus-drug-dealers-aposdisguising-themselves-as-key-workersapos-during-uk-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:03:05","slug":"coronavirus-drug-dealers-aposdisguising-themselves-as-key-workersapos-during-uk-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=140308","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Drug dealers &amp;apos;disguising themselves as key workers&amp;apos; during UK lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drug dealers are disguising themselves as key workers to avoid police during the UK&#8217;s coronavirus lockdown, officials have revealed. Lynne Owens, director-general of the National Crime Agency (NCA), said gangs were also dealing from supermarket car parks in an attempt to mix in with crowds. &#8220;We know that some groups finding it harder to transport their commodities and are adapting their methods,&#8221; she told a press conference on Wednesday. &#8220;Intelligence indicates that they are seeking to deal drugs in supermarket car parks, and to portray themselves as key workers to prevent being stopped by police.&#8221;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/coronavirus-drug-dealers-key-workers-uk-lockdown-police-fines-a9466526.html\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus: Drug dealers &amp;apos;disguising themselves as key workers&amp;apos; during UK lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug dealers are disguising themselves as key workers to avoid police during the UK&#8217;s coronavirus lockdown, officials have revealed. Lynne Owens, director-general of the National Crime Agency (NCA), said gangs were also dealing from supermarket car parks in an attempt to mix in with crowds. &#8220;We know that some groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}