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A police officer shouted ‘bingo’ after finding 9kg of cocaine in the boot a drug dealer’s car – as a woman is jailed for six years.
Nine blocks of cocaine, worth up to £750,000, were found in an open cardboard box in the boot of a car owned by 58-year-old Linda Lawrence.
She was pulled over by Staffordshire Police as she drove on the M6 through the West Midlands.
Officers also found two mobile phones, brown parcel tape, plastic disposable gloves, pieces of paper with phone numbers on them, hotel receipts and £140 in cash.
Lawrence was caught on October 8 last year after West Midlands Police received a tip-off.
Her home was searched and bank statements showed payments of several hundreds of pounds paid into her account at random intervals over a period of at least a year.
Bodycam footage shows officer searching the boot of Lawrence’s brown Mitsubishi ASX before stumbling on an open box.
Upon seeing the box, the officer shouted ‘bingo’ before counting out nine vacuum-sealed packets of cocaine sacked inside the box.
Linda Lawrence, 58, was caught with cocaine worth £750,000, stuffed in the boot of her car
Lawrence, caught on bodycam footage, as police arrested her for possession with intent to supply
Nine bags of cocaine were found in a box in the boot of her Lawrence’s car
The video then shows officers turning to Lawrence sat in a car.
The officer said: ‘At this moment in time, you are under arrest for possession with intent to supply a controlled substance of Class A’.
Lawrence, of St Neots in Cambridgeshire admitted possession with intent to supply class A drugs and was jailed for six years at Stafford Crown Court on Thursday.
DC Liam O’Brien, from the Regional Organised Crime Unit for the West Midlands (ROCUWM), said: ‘We believe Lawrence was being paid by others to transport these drugs around the country, and investigations into the wider drugs network continue.
‘This was a really significant seizure of Class A drugs – drugs which would have gone on to cause untold misery on the streets of the UK.
‘We work across the region to disrupt and arrest those involved in the supply and sale of drugs.’
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