AN IRISHMAN has been arrested after trying to fly from the Costa Blanca to the UK with around €200,000 of cannabis.
The 36-year-old was held after the suitcase he had checked in for his flight from Alicante airport to Liverpool was found to contain 18 kilos of the drug.
Airport security staff alerted police that the suitcase could contain banned narcotics after passing it through an x-ray scanner.
The unnamed Irish national was held at a boarding gate after police started working on identifying and locating its owner.
He was about to board a Ryanair flight when he was pulled out of the queue and asked to open his suitcase in front of officers.
The suspect was formally arrested on…