Convicted armed robber caught with £500k cocaine cargo - after cops noticed his car had a light out
A convicted armed robber was caught with a £500,000 cocaine cargo after trying to speed away from police - who had seen his car had a light out. Ashley Makin, 32, who had previously carried out a terrifying raid on a McDoanld's restaurant in Stockport, was travelling on the M6 northbound, alone, towards Penrith, Cumbria, in a black Vauxhall Insignia just before 3pm on Friday, July 1.
A search of the Vauxhall revealed a black holdall containing five 1kg blocks of cocaine. A police drugs expert concluded these were each worth £35,000 wholesale and, if high purity and sold on the street, the haul’s potential value could be between £400,000 and £500,000. There was no assessment available of this haul’s purity.
“This is a very high value cargo and clearly was trusted to someone who the organisation took as loyal and trusted,” Mr Evans told the court. References had been submitted to the court by Makin’s partner and also a man who was still willing to offer him work. “He has made an impression on that man that he can be trusted to work when he is not getting involved in recreational drugs that have led him to the commission of this offence,” said Mr Jandoo. “There are elements of intimidation. That has caused an untold amount of concern to Mr Makin and his family.
Judge Medland also told Makin of his role in what was a “filthy and corrosive trade: “Almost inevitably it is lads like you that get caught, and not the lads at the top. You pay for that by having to spend — and spending — years looking at a prison cell wall.”
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