Drug dealer jailed after police found £3,800,000 of cocaine during traffic stop
A drug dealer who was found with almost £4,000,000 of cocaine in his car after being pulled over by police has been jailed for 13 years.
Officers discovered the haul of Class-A drugs wrapped with ‘King Pro’ packaging during a traffic stop in Solihull, West Midlands.
Driver Conrad Byrd, 50, was arrested at the scene after being pulled over on Kenilworth Road on March 14.
Following searches of his vehicle, officers found over 25 kilos of cocaine, with a street value of approximately £3,800,000.
Further searches were carried out at his home address in Sidcup, Bexley, South East London, where further kilos of drugs were found along with cash.
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Detectives found Byrd had conducted many trips between the West Midlands and London to transfer drugs for a gang.
He pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply Class A drugs over a three month period and was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for 13.5 years.
In April, two members of a gang were ordered to pay back more than £300,000 each after smuggling Class A drugs inside a shipment of raspberry sorbet.
William Morritt, 69, and John Madden, 51, moved 39kg of cocaine and 18kg of heroin from Belgium to England in 2017.
Police discovered the haul amongst 26 pallets of frozen raspberry yoghurt sorbet at a frozen food warehouse in Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire.
It was later revealed the pair made over £4.7 million from the operation.
The seizure was the biggest of its kind in Nottinghamshire for many years, said police.
After an investigation, a number of suspects were charged in connection with the smuggling operation.
Five people went on to be convicted of offences, including Madden and Morritt.
In 2023, Madden, of Kirkby, Knowsley, Merseyside, was jailed for 21 years after admitting conspiring to fraudulently evade a prohibition on the importation of a Class A drug.
Morritt, from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, the gang’s haulier, was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of the same charge.
Earlier this month, on April 2, Morritt received a confiscation order demanding repayment of £367,301.91 at Leicester Crown Court.
The Proceeds of Crime hearing was told he had benefitted by £2,384,655.93 from his illegal actions.
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