Glasgow Drugs Gang Jailed
Four men have been jailed after cocaine worth £100,000 was found in a police raid in Glasgow in May last year.
Members of a Scots drugs gang caught in the supply a big consignment of cocaine have been handed prison sentences totalling more than 21 years.
Three were working in a "cutting factory" where pure cocaine was mixed with adulterants to bulk it out so dealers could make more profit. The fourth member was a drugs courier stopped on the A737 slip road at Junction 28a of the M8 near Paisley..
The High Court at Livingston was told that police recovered quantities of the Class A drug with a street value estimated at up to GBP 100,000 following a raid on the Autoshine garage at Heatheryknowe Farm, Glasgow, on 12 May last year.
George McKenzie, 31, got the longest sentence of six years and eight months; Matthew Graham, 35, will serve six years and four months, and Christopher Martin, 36, was jailed for five years. All were described as prisoners at Barlinnie.
Mark Agnew, 23, of Grant Street, Greenock, - the youngest member of the gang and a first offender - was sentenced to three years and four months.
Passing sentence, Lord Burns told them they had admitted involvement in the supply of a "substantial amount" of cocaine.
"Despite the level of purity which on any view was low, the values are also significant. The fact is for at least three of you cocaine would have been distributed to the public with all the attendant misery that that would cause."