Jail for gang caught in supply of £1.7m worth of drugs

Jail for gang caught in supply of £1.7m worth of drugs

Four men caught with significant quantities of cocaine, cannabis and cannabis resin have been jailed.

Robert Wright, 55, Terrence Connelly, 31, Brian McCulley, 39, and Peter Ewing, 53, all admitted being involved in the supply of drugs worth a total of more than £1,720,000.

The men were jailed for nearly 20 years at the High Court in Glasgow today.

The court heard that they were arrested during a police surveillance operation targeting the supply of drugs in December 2017.

Messrs Wright, McCulley and Ewing were seen at a yard in the Dennistoun area on 13 December. Police followed a Ford Mondeo which left the yard and McCulley and Ewing were arrested. Officers found 18kg of cannabis with an estimated street value of £170,000 and 20kg of cannabis resin worth £56,000 in the vehicle. Wright was later spotted near the yard and was arrested.

Later the same day Mr Connelly was seen entering the same yard. Officers followed him and found him in a shipping container with white powder on the floor. He was arrested.

The yard, which held three shipping containers as well as a trailer, five vans and a car, was searched. Police found 10kg of cocaine worth £407,880 in one of the containers, along with 261kg of cannabis resin worth £732,000 and 47kg of cannabis worth £363,000 in one of the vans. Drug making equipment and cutting agents were also found in the yard.

As well as a prison sentence, Wright and Connelly will be subject to Proceeds of Crime action which will seek to confiscate any profits of criminal activity.

Procurator fiscal for homicide and major crime, Nicola Patrick, said: “This was a coordinated effort to bring significant quantities of illegal and harmful drugs through Scotland. These men are now serving prison sentences thanks to an extensive police operation, working with COPFS, to investigate a network of drug supply in the Glasgow area.

“With each case of this kind we can help reduce the harm that these drugs do to Scotland’s communities.”

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