{"id":598051,"date":"2026-05-22T13:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598051\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:37:09","slug":"ex-soldier-jailed-after-woman-dumped-cocaine-at-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598051\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-soldier jailed after woman dumped cocaine at police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dalziel told the High Court in Glasgow the woman dumped a number of bags on the floor and indicated that they contained controlled substances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bags were found to contain 11 packages of cocaine while a total of more than \u00a31,000 was also seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The woman&#8217;s home and motor vehicle were later searched and police discovered keys to the flat in Meadowside Quay Walk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers went to the property and it was unlocked with no one inside, although a wallet and driving licence in Clark&#8217;s name were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dalziel said a large black bag was spotted in the open-plan living area containing 10 taped packages of heroin, while a further 10 blocks of the drug &#8211; each with a distinctive stamp &#8211; were seized from a cupboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a total of 21kg of cocaine found, with a potential value of around \u00a31.7m, with the heroin having a maximum sale of \u00a3430,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A search of the property also found \u00a33805 stacked in elastic bands, a Cartier watch and designer clothes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clark was arrested while walking to the flat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dalziel told the High Court in Glasgow the woman dumped a number of bags on the floor and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}