Father who was caught with £3m cocaine and heroin haul at M6 Toll service station is jailed
The man was found with more than 30kg of drugs worth around £3million at a motorway service station
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Stephen Lockley, aged 40 and of Etal Close, Liverpool, was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court on Friday (January 10), to six years in jail after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to two counts of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply.
Lockley was stopped by Staffordshire Police's Regional and Organised Crime Unit officers at Norton Canes Services, on the M6 Toll, just after 1pm on Tuesday, July 23 of last year.
Searching the vehicle, officers discovered a 30kg haul of class A drugs, including cocaine and heroin, with an estimated street value of around £3 million.
Prosecuting, Mr Dean Easthope said: "On July 23, this defendant was driving a transit van registered to him, he was stopped at the Norton Canes services on the M6 Toll. He was the only person in there.
"As he was walking towards the services he was detained. Cardboard boxes were located in the van. Two boxes contained packages of brown powder substance, the third contained white powder substance - obviously heroin and cocaine."
