An alleged middle manager in an organised crime gang was jailed for five years and eight months today after he was caught with a haul of cocaine worth nearly £900,000. Garry Jordan was driving a car near to Aviemore, in the Highlands, when he was intercepted by police who found approximately three kilos of the Class A drug.
A court heard that an analysis of messages from an encrypted Encrochat phone placed him "in a logistics role at a mid level in the hierarchy of the organised crime group". Jordan's accomplice, Steven McCallum, who was also in the vehicle, was jailed for four years for his role in the drugs offence. Jordan, of Thistle Neuk, Old Kilpatrick, in West Dunbartonshire, and McCallum, 34, of Kintyre Avenue, Linwood, in Renfrewshire, both earlier admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
Jordan pled guilty to being involved between March 27 and May 29 in 2020 and McCallum to involvement on a single day, May 29 in 2020, when the car was stopped.
