2026年4月27日 / 美国东部时间早上6:15 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
官员证实，22名从泰国返回斯里兰卡的僧侣周日在主要国际机场落网，警方查获创纪录数量的242磅强效大麻。
斯里兰卡海关一名发言人表示，这群僧侣在泰国首都度过四天假期后返国，他们将Kush——一种强效植物大麻品种——藏在行李中。
“每人都将约5公斤毒品藏在行李的假夹层里，”该发言人说道，并补充称僧侣们已被移交警方。
他们将于周日晚些时候接受治安法官的审讯。
这些僧侣大多是斯里兰卡各地寺庙的年轻学僧，此次假期由一名商人赞助。
海关官员表示，这是南亚国家这座主要国际机场单次查获Kush毒品数量最多的案件。
斯里兰卡僧侣2026年4月26日在尼甘布被捕后出庭受审。据官员透露，当日共有22名僧侣因携带242磅强效大麻在机场被捕。伊沙拉·S·科迪卡拉 / 法新社通过盖蒂images拍摄
去年5月，一名21岁英国女子在同一机场因携带101磅毒品被捕。这名身份为夏洛特·梅·李的女子称，她从曼谷前往科伦坡是为了续签泰国签证。据英国广播公司报道，她否认知晓行李内藏有毒品，并声称毒品是在曼谷的酒店被人植入的。
2025年6月，斯里兰卡海关当局逮捕一名女子，并查获该国主要机场有史以来最大宗的可卡因走私案。官员表示，这名38岁的泰国女子将约22磅可卡因藏在三个毛绒玩具中，其身份未被公开。
近年来，斯里兰卡当局还多次查获通过小型渔船走私的大量海洛因及其他毒品。
此次落网事件并非僧侣首次触犯毒品法律。
2022年，泰国中部一座佛教寺庙内的所有僧侣均被剥夺僧籍，原因是他们的甲基苯丙胺检测呈阳性。这些僧侣随后被送往健康诊所接受戒毒治疗。
2017年，警方称缅甸一名佛教僧侣被捕，当局在其车辆及寺庙内查获超过400万粒甲基苯丙胺片剂。
22 Buddhist monks arrested at airport after record drug bust
April 27, 2026 / 6:15 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
Twenty-two Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand were arrested on Sunday at the main international airport with a record 242 pounds of powerful cannabis, officials said.
A Sri Lanka Customs spokesman said the group, returning home after a four-day vacation in the Thai capital, had Kush — a potent, plant-based strain of cannabis — hidden in their luggage.
“Each carried about five kilos of the narcotic concealed within false walls in their luggage,” the spokesman said, adding that the monks had been handed over to police.
They were to be taken before a magistrate later on Sunday.
The monks were mostly young students from temples across Sri Lanka and had been on a holiday sponsored by a businessman.
Customs officials said it was the largest single detection of Kush at the South Asian country’s main international airport.
Sri Lankan monks arrive to appear before a court after their arrest in Negombo on April 26, 2026, after 22 of them were arrested at the airport with 242 pounds of powerful cannabis, officials said. Ishara S. KODIKARA /AFP via Getty Images
Last May, 21-year-old British woman was arrested with 101 pounds of the drug at the same airport. The woman, identified as Charlotte May Lee, said she had traveled from Bangkok to Colombo to renew her Thai visa. The BBC reported that she denied knowledge of drugs in her luggage, and claimed they were planted at her hotel in Bangkok.
In June 2025, Sri Lanka’s customs authorities arrested a woman and seized the largest haul of cocaine ever detected at the country’s main airport. Officials said the unnamed 38-year-old Thai woman was carrying about 22 pounds of cocaine stuffed into three plush toys.
Sri Lankan authorities have also made several detections of large hauls of heroin and other narcotics smuggled in via small fishing boats in recent years.
The latest arrests aren’t the first time monks have run afoul of drug laws.
In 2022, every single monk at a Buddhist temple in central Thailand was defrocked after they tested positive for methamphetamine. The monks were sent to a health clinic to undergo drug rehabilitation.
In 2017, police said a Buddhist monk was arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million meth pills in his car and in his monastery.
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