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Two Stafford
residents who had been caught concealing £260,000 (about N 131,745,744)worth of
cannabis in laundry bags (popularly known as ‘Ghana Must Go’ bags) have been
handed different jail sentences.
The convicts, Tariq Khwaja (45) and Venelin
Mihaylov (33), who had labeled the bags ‘fragile’ have been before their
arrest, had been arraigned before a Stafford Crown Court where they both
entered guilty pleas.
While Khwaja bagged a 9-year jail
term Mihaylov, who the court had established played a minor role was put away
for 15 months.
The convicts were taken into
custody after police dogs sniffed out the cannabis in the older suspect’s car
after they were stopped by officers on the M6 near Stafford, according to Express & Star.
Prosecutors told the court the men
were stopped while driving a black Vauxhall Insignia near Junction 14 of the M6
northbound at Stafford on February 13 last year.
A couple of K-9s searched the
vehicle and sniffed out banned substances said to be cannabis worth £263,348 in
a large cardboard box marked as ‘fragile’ and two laundry bags.
The box contained 10 packages of
professionally heat-sealed plastic bags with an inner layer containing almost
ten kilos of skunk cannabis, with an estimated street value of £100,000.
One laundry bag contained 7.9kg of
skunk cannabis, with an estimated street value of £80,000, while the other bag
contained just over 7kg with an estimated street value of £70,000.
Deals of cocaine were also
discovered in the car.
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