Two Scots who used postal system and dark web to distribute drugs across the world are caged
Connor Holmes and Scott Roddie, both from Aberdeen, have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison following the first conviction of its kind in Scotland.
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Two Scots who used the postal system and dark web to distribute class A drugs with a street value of £1.3 million across the world have been caged.
Aberdeen dealers jailed over £1.3m drugs operation Two men from Aberdeen - who used the postal system and dark web to distribute class A drugs across the world -have been sentenced to a total of eight-and-a-half years in prison.
Police say that the convictions and sentencing of Connor Holmes, 24, and Scott Roddie, 29, are the first of their kind in Scotland.
In December 2018, two parcels from the Netherlands, which were addressed to Holmes, were intercepted by the Border Force and found to containing 8.2 kg of MDMA.
Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership (Scotland) searched his address and recovered approximately 73,366 MDMA tablets worth at least £733,660 and £8,500 in cash.
The firearm seized from a flat in Brent Cross. Credit: National Crime Agency Two men have been charged after a loaded gun, ammunition, £60,000 in cash and cocaine was seized at a flat in Brent Cross. Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership - a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service unit - raided the property in Claremont Road on Friday May 7. During the search, the Met says officers seized more than 100 wraps of cocaine, scales and other drug dealing paraphernalia, along with the £60,000 of suspected criminal cash. Officers found the gun, a Retay 17 self-loading pistol, hidden in a laundry basket with three rounds of ammunition loaded in the magazine. A further four rounds of ammunition were also recovered.
Published:
4:14 PM May 8, 2021
Updated:
4:16 PM May 8, 2021
Officers seized a Retay 17 self-loading pistol and seven rounds of ammunition from a Brent Cross flat
- Credit: National Crime Agency
Two men have been charged after a loaded gun, ammunition, £60,000 in cash and cocaine seized at a flat in Brent Cross, according to police.
Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership raided a property in Claremont Road on Friday.
Police say they found a Retay 17 self-loading pistol in a laundry basket, with three rounds of ammunition loaded in the magazine.
They say they seized a further four rounds of ammunition and £60,000 of suspected criminal cash, as well as more than 100 wraps of cocaine, scales and other drug dealing paraphernalia.