Two Royal Marine commandos were part of a £300,000 plot that saw drugs ferried from Merseyside to Scotland.
Grant Broadfoot and Stuart Bryant signed out a Ministry of Defence van on the pretence of visiting shooting ranges at Altcar Training Camp in Hightown. But the naval officers were secretly using the MOD vehicle to collect cannabis from a location on the outskirts of Formby and move it north of the border.
Grant Broadfoot also abused his role as an ammunitions storeman to sell rounds from Royal Navy base HM Faslane to potential buyers via EncroChat. Using the handle "VeteranPants" the 29-year-old boasted that he could source bullets for machine guns and semi-automatic pistols including Glocks.
