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Police pull over driver to find £10k of Class A drugs, a lamb and a bag of chips
Not quite the lamb and chips you were expecting!
Police pulled over a driver to find £10,000 worth of Class A drugs, a portion of chips and a lamb on the back passenger seat.
Officers from Police Scotland arrested the driver and passengers while the lamb was taken in by a local farmer.
The car was pulled over on the M74 near Glasgow on Saturday, April 22nd, at around 6.10pm.
Two men aged 52 and 53 and a woman aged 38 were arrested and charged with drug offences after heroin and cocaine worth £10,000 were recovered from the vehicle. The driver also failed a roadside swab test for cocaine, police said.
In a series of tweets, the force joked about the peculiar circumstances they uncovered at the roadside.
They wrote in a Twitter post: “Oh ewe! Officers from #GlasgowRP stopped this vehicle (not a Lamborghini!) on the #M74 J3 NB yesterday.
“In addition to this wee fella roughly £10k in Class A drugs were recovered with assistance from @PSOSDogs. Driver further arrested for failing the roadside swab for cocaine.”
The force also thanked a police dog named ‘Billy’ that was said to be instrumental in finding the drugs.
“PD Billy entered the car and indicated drugs were present. Officers recovered heroin, with an estimated street value of £7,000 and cocaine, worth an estimated value of £3,000,” the force said in a statement.