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Moment police officer shouts ‘bingo’ as he finds 9kg of cocaine in the boot of a drug dealer’s car – as 58-year-old woman is jailed

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Linda Lawrence, 58, was caught with cocaine worth £750,000 stuffed in the boot of her car.

A police officer shouted “bingo” after finding 9kg of cocaine in the boot of a drug dealer’s car, while a woman is sentenced to six years in jail.

Nine bricks of cocaine, worth up to £750,000, were found in an open cardboard box in the boot of a car owned by Linda Lawrence, 58.

She was stopped by Staffordshire Police while driving on the M6 ​​through the West Midlands.

Officers also found two mobile phones, brown parcel tape, disposable plastic gloves, pieces of paper with telephone numbers, hotel receipts and £140 in cash.

Lawrence was captured on October 8 last year after West Midlands Police received a tip-off.

His house was searched and bank statements showed payments of several hundred pounds credited to his account at random intervals over a period of at least a year.

Body camera footage shows the officer searching the boot of Lawrence’s brown Mitsubishi ASX before stumbling upon an open box.

Upon seeing the box, the agent yelled “bingo” before counting nine vacuum-sealed packages of cocaine inside the box.

Linda Lawrence, 58, was caught with cocaine worth £750,000 stuffed in the boot of her car.

Lawrence, caught on body camera footage, being arrested by police for possession with intent to supply

Lawrence, caught on body camera footage, being arrested by police for possession with intent to supply

Nine bags of cocaine were found in a box in the trunk of Lawrence's car.

Nine bags of cocaine were found in a box in the trunk of Lawrence’s car.

The video then shows officers turning to Lawrence sitting in a car.

The officer said, “At this time, you are under arrest for possession with intent to supply a Class A controlled substance.”

Lawrence, of St Neots in Cambridgeshire, admitted possession with intent to supply class A drugs and was jailed for six years at Stafford Crown Court on Thursday.

DC Liam O’Brien, of the Regional Organized Crime Unit for the West Midlands (ROCUWM), said: “We believe Lawrence was being paid by others to transport these drugs around the country, and investigations into the wider drugs network continue.” .

‘This was a truly significant seizure of Class A drugs, drugs that would have caused untold misery on the streets of the UK.

“We work across the region to disrupt and arrest those involved in the supply and sale of drugs.”

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