A trusted courier for an organised crime gang was stopped with a "block" of heroin worth an estimated £40,000 in his car.
Scott Franks, 50, was pulled over by drugs police on the M5 motorway near Bridgwater, Somerset, on March 23, and his vehicle was searched. Inside officers found a kilo block of heroin plus a further kilo of a cutting agent, used to dilute the drug to increase profits.
Franks, of St Austell, in Cornwall, was jailed for four years at Taunton Crown Court after being convicted of possession with intent to supply a Class A drug and being concerned in the supply of a Class A drug. An investigation by Avon and Somerset Police found he had been acting as a courier for a Merseyside based crime gang, and had been making regular journeys between the North West and Devon and Cornwall over a six month period.
