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£150,000 drugs haul from Leeds car
Paul Griffiths.
When two police officers became suspicious about an erratically driven car they carried out a spot check ... and recovered almost £150,000 worth of cannabis resin.
The driver of the Volkswagen Golf, Paul Griffiths, is starting a three year prison sentence after pleading guilty at Leeds Crown Court to possession of illegal drugs with intent to supply.
PCs Paul Ellis and Stuart Bannister, of the road crime team spotted the Golf driven by Griffiths and containing two women on York Road, Seacroft, Leeds, at 10.30pm on October 28.
The car stopped on the forecourt of the BP Petrol Station on York Road and the occupants claimed they were lost and seeking an address in Whinmoor, Leeds.
The court heard that Griffiths, 48, from Aldershot, told the officers he had made arrangements to buy a stock car from the address.
The women claimed they had only known Griffiths for a short period and were planning to meet friends locally.
Their accounts raised suspicions and the officers also smelled cannabis inside the Golf.
Griffiths said that two boxes in the boot contained leaflets left by the car’s previous owner.The officers searched the car and PC Ellis opened the two cardboard boxes, which were taped up. He found 139 bars of cannabis resin with a street value of £148,000.
Griffiths and the two women were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply a class B drug.
At that point Griffiths’ phone rang and he said: “That’s where I could have been going to deliver the packages.”
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