Scottish Legal News
A drugs trafficker has been jailed for five years after police found cocaine worth almost £2.5 million in his car following a high-speed chase.
Dylan Nicol, 24, drove at speeds up to 120mph to evade arrest during the pursuit along the A90 and Kingsway West in Dundee in February this year.
After he was detained, specialist drugs officers found 13 packages of cocaine in the boot of his Volkswagen Golf which they later estimated had a maximum potential value of £2,447,900. The drugs also had an average purity of 79 per cent.
Nicol, of Dundee, was sentenced at the High Court in Inverness after he pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine and a charge of dangerous driving.
Moira Orr, who leads on major crime for the Crown Office, said: “This was a highly successful prosecution which has removed a large quantity of drugs from our streets and caused significant disruption to the local supply chain.
“Dylan Nicol will now spend time in prison paying for his crimes thanks to an extensive police operation, working with COPFS, to investigate and disrupt a network of drug supply.
“Drug trafficking wrecks lives and blights communities where drugs take hold.
“The Crown will continue working with the police and other agencies as a member of Scotland’s Serious and Organised Crime Taskforce to ensure that these crimes are detected and those responsible prosecuted using all measures at our disposal.”
