A now former welfare employee in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, is accused in a fraud case involving 48 EBT cards, crack cocaine, and a lot of cash.

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A 28-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after admitting to charges of illegally possessing and possessing with intent to supply 2kg of cocaine and 8kg of cannabis.

Limassol criminal court heard that the drugs were discovered by the anti-drug trafficking police unit (Ykan) following a tip off.

They were found in a package imported from Greece and held at a courier company’s warehouse in Limassol.

During a controlled delivery operation, the defendant appeared to collect the package and was arrested.

The court said the man had acted as an intermediary, following instructions from a third party in exchange for payment, to facilitate the drugs’ distribution on the market.

Judges highlighted the seriousness of the offences, the quantities involved and the high purity of the cocaine, stressing the need for deterrent sentences amid rising drug related crime.

The court also considered the defendant’s previous conviction for cannabis possession and use, as well as his guilty plea, personal and family circumstances and efforts to overcome addiction.

Proceedings against his co-defendant were postponed to a later date.

Just a few years ago, Jos Leijdekkers was a gangster in Antwerp, working for a major drug lord. Today he’s the most powerful man in Sierra Leone, which he’s single-handedly turned into a crucial port in the transatlantic cocaine trade. European authorities haven’t been able to track him down. Can a journalist? Alexander Clapp details Leijdekkers’s remarkable, violent rise to power, while looking for the man himself:

“These kinds of people, we are always seeing them in Africa. They come, they disappear. But the moment we learned who he was, it freaked me out,” a local car-dealer who was one of the first people to sell a motor to Leijdekkers, told me. “I left Sierra Leone after finding out. I became really scared. Not small scared.” Sophie van Leeuwen, a Dutch correspondent for RTL News, told me she “had the strong feeling I was being followed by the secret police” during the first days of a reporting trip she took to Sierra Leone in February 2025. She was arrested outside a villa where Leijdekkers was believed to reside, informed that she had intruded upon a “special security situation”, and questioned for 15 hours. Her camera and computer were searched and scrubbed. The Flemish owner of her hotel was interrogated over her alleged role in seeding a European spy network in Sierra Leone.

One evening in the hills above Freetown I attended a cocktail party where Western diplomats mingled with aid-workers. “Careful with that,” a European mission head told me when I mentioned why I had come to Africa, swivelling her blue eyes round the room. A Norwegian mining investor assured me that there would only be one way of knowing whether I was making progress in my investigation: “The government will arrange a car crash for you.”