Man caught with 2.4kgs of cocaine – after locking himself in car at Newcastle Airport
25.09.10
A hapless drug dealer was arrested with 2.4kg of cocaine after he accidentally locked himself in his own car in a car park at Newcastle Airport, the Northern Echo reports. Dean Gilmore was found trapped in his car at the airport in January after his battery went flat, making the central locking inactive.
Airport staff helped re-start the car to free him, then police searched the Vauxhall Omega and found £88,000 worth of cocaine in a bag in the boot. The 25-year-old, of Byron Court, in Swalwell, Gateshead, was jailed for three years and four months this week after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to supply.
