GLASGOW: Police have arrested two men in Glasgow after the seizure of £2.3m worth of drugs at a port.
A total of 24kg of cocaine, 16kg of heroin, 144kg of cannabis resin and 12kg of herbal cannabis was discovered by Border Force officers at Teesport in North Yorkshire on January 29. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the drugs had a combined street value of more than £2.3m.
On Wednesday, officers raided a property in Glasgow and arrested two men, aged 32 and 38. They have now been charged with importation offences and a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.
Bill Robertson, from the NCA’s border investigation team based in Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire, said: “It is fairly unusual for a single seizure to include such a wide range of substances and in these sort of quantities.
“Those drugs will now not reach the streets of Scotland and the damage they would have caused has been prevented.
“Our investigation continues and we continue to work with Border Force and Police Scotland to break the link between larger scale traffickers and street level dealing.”
Christina Brown, assistant director of Border Force North East, said: “By making this seizure we have stopped a significant quantity of dangerous drugs reaching the streets of the UK.
“Detections like this demonstrate how Border Force officers are at the forefront of the fight to keep illegal substances out of the country.”
