Report Irish Woman Jailed in Norway for Cannabis Smuggling from Thailand

[snoop1130]

Picture courtesy of the Irish Mirror

 

An Irish woman has been sentenced to three years in a Norwegian prison after being caught with nearly 30 kilogrammes of cannabis in her luggage. Jamie Mahon, 32, from Drogheda, Co Louth, was arrested at Oslo’s Gardermoen Airport on January 9th, following an X-ray that revealed two suitcases packed with cannabis, valued at approximately 600,000 euros (22.5 million baht).

 

Mahon, who arrived on a flight from Bangkok, initially claimed the bags were given to her in Thailand, asserting she was unaware of their contents and was merely transiting through Norway on her way to Ireland. However, the court saw through her defence. Describing her role as crucial to drug distribution, the judge found her guilty of acting intentionally as a courier.

 

Images show Mahon at Bangkok airport collecting the baggage moments before her flight to Norway. Despite admitting to the charges, Mahon will have her three-year sentence reduced by 92 days, already served.

 

This arrest is a significant setback for an Irish organised crime gang linked to two fugitive brothers, one based in Dubai and the other believed to be in Thailand. The seized drugs were meant to fund an ongoing feud between these brothers' gang and associates of paralysed mob boss Owen Maguire, a conflict already resulting in multiple deaths.

 

Maguire was shot by notorious hitman Robbie Lawlor in 2018, leaving him paralysed. Lawlor was later killed in Belfast in 2020, the main suspect in the brutal murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods, whose remains were found in one of Ireland’s most shocking gangland crimes.

 

Recently, gang associates Paul Crosby and Gerard “Rocky” Cruise were jailed for facilitating Mulready-Woods' murder, receiving ten and seven-year sentences respectively. Mahon’s arrest and conviction add another grim chapter to this violent saga, echoing through a Norwegian courtroom.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Thaiger 2025-06-18

 

 

[motdaeng]

... she looks like a real peace of art ... 

(sorry, coudn't resist)

[quake]

Prison in Norway.

Is the best custodial holiday camp on the planet.

 

 

[Keeps]

Wonder if it is linked to the Kinahan family empire? Members of that family based in Dubai.

 

Some interesting documentaries about them on various platforms including BBC iPlayer.

 

The main man is big into his boxing and was linked to Tyson Fury but I think Fury has subsequently distanced himself after certain stories have hit the media.

[MalcolmB]

Covered in tramp stamps.

Not the brightest.

[norsurin]

8 hours ago, quake said:

Prison in Norway.

Is the best custodial holiday camp on the planet.

 

 

She get lucky to get jail time in Norway.And when served 2/3 of her time she can leave the prison and go back home.

[save the frogs]

Just get ... a ... job. 

 

[blaze master]

What's wrong with these dolts. Smoke your brains out in thailand have at it.  Must take a special kind of stupid to do this now after the other 8 million crayon eaters already tried it. 

[Harrisfan]

10 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Covered in tramp stamps.

Not the brightest.

Each tatt lowers the IQ by 5 points

[Jim Blue]

11 hours ago, quake said:

Prison in Norway.

Is the best custodial holiday camp on the planet.

 

 

How much do you have to pay to get in ?

[gargamon]

3 hours ago, norsurin said:

She get lucky to get jail time in Norway.And when served 2/3 of her time she can leave the prison and go back home.

She's out already. 3 year sentence, reduced to time served waiting for trial(92 days). Probably due to the plea deal.

 

You didn't read the OP?

[watchcat]

12 hours ago, quake said:

Prison in Norway.

Is the best custodial holiday camp on the planet.

 

 

 

And the food is probably better than in Bangkok, not to mention the TV shows.

[Upnotover]

15 minutes ago, gargamon said:

She's out already. 3 year sentence, reduced to time served waiting for trial(92 days). Probably due to the plea deal.

 

You didn't read the OP?

I did.  It says her 3 year sentence is reduced by 92 days, not reduced to 92 days,

[Shocked farang]

I just cannot believe that someone would be so stupid to try to get 30kgs of weed through customs! It's just unbelievable the level of stupidity! Cannabis is an organic product that shows very clearly in the X ray. How stupid. By the way, many European airports also have the sniffing dogs. 

[cookie1974]

Good, the Cannabis legalisation has attracted criminals from all over the world attempting to smuggle it back to their native countrys, start giving these drug mules stiff sentences, but what is more alarming is the amount of people who get through Thai customs in the first place, only be intercepted in transit countrys, what are the Thai police doing?

[Iron Tongue]

1 hour ago, gargamon said:

She's out already. 3 year sentence, reduced to time served waiting for trial(92 days). Probably due to the plea deal.

 

You didn't read the OP?

 

What a maroon!

[Upnotover]

2 minutes ago, cookie1974 said:

but what is more alarming is the amount of people who get through Thai customs in the first place, only be intercepted in transit countrys, what are the Thai police doing?

They are sending a message on to the destination.  Makes perfect sense, why would Thailand want to keep these people.

[newbee2022]

13 hours ago, quake said:

Prison in Norway.

Is the best custodial holiday camp on the planet.

 

 

Yeah, maybe even a better than in Drogheda 😂

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Covered in tramp stamps.

Not the brightest.

Lucky she got 3 years in Norway & not in Thailand

[Quentin Zen]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

30 kilogrammes of cannabis in her luggage

It's as if they never pay attention to the news.

 

Absolute morons who must like jail.  

 

mabye owes money to the mafia.  kids in trouble.  last chance stuff.  

 

maybe they know ONLY three years.  Maybe they will just keep trying this forever.  Career.

 

At least try diamonds worth a billion.   

 

[LivingNThailand]

1 hour ago, gargamon said:

She's out already. 3 year sentence, reduced to time served waiting for trial(92 days). Probably due to the plea deal.

I read 

Despite admitting to the charges, Mahon will have her three-year sentence reduced by 92 days, already served.

Meaning 2 years and 273 days.  ??

[Kenny Boy]

1 hour ago, gargamon said:

She's out already. 3 year sentence, reduced to time served waiting for trial(92 days). Probably due to the plea deal.

 

You didn't read the OP?

You may have read it, but not properly 🤡

Dunderhead

[LivingNThailand]

13 minutes ago, cookie1974 said:

what is more alarming is the amount of people who get through Thai customs in the first place, only be intercepted in transit countrys, what are the Thai police doing?

I think they are doing it on purpose.  Let the other countries deal with the trials and jail sentences .  Imagine how crowded the jails/prisons would be if Thai police arrested all these people?   In my humble opinion.

[quake]

2 hours ago, Jim Blue said:

How much do you have to pay to get in ?

 

Best way is to go into say Rema 1000, do a bit of shop lifting.

Then you will get a free invite for a month or two. 

[john11k]

Can’t teach “ Stupid “   Your born with it. 
three year sentence is about ten years to short.  !

imagine all the family heartache she was going to cause   ! 

[wensiensheng]

57 minutes ago, Shocked farang said:

I just cannot believe that someone would be so stupid to try to get 30kgs of weed through customs! It's just unbelievable the level of stupidity! Cannabis is an organic product that shows very clearly in the X ray. How stupid. By the way, many European airports also have the sniffing dogs. 

Somehow it got through the oh so stringent scanning at a Thai airport on departure.

[oslooskar]

2 hours ago, watchcat said:

 

And the food is probably better than in Bangkok, not to mention the TV shows.

 

Apparently you have never eaten Norwegian cooking. 

[Tarteso]

Looking at the color of her skin and hair, for a second, I thought she was Norwegian.

[philipsharpe]

2 hours ago, gargamon said:

She's out already. 3 year sentence, reduced to time served waiting for trial(92 days). Probably due to the plea deal.

 

You didn't read the OP?

Get someone to accurately read it to you.

[frank83628]

3yrs isnt bad for 30KGS.

If anything like the UK she only do 1/2 that, perhaps even earlier release and send home if they do tag monitoring.