A police officer shouted ‘bingo’ after finding 9kg of cocaine in the boot a drug dealer’s car.
Nine blocks of cocaine, worth up to £750,000, were found in an open cardboard box in the boot of a car owned by the 58-year-old.
Linda Lawrence, 58, was pulled over by Police as she drove on the M6 through the West Midlands.
Officers also found two mobile phones, brown parcel tape, plastic disposable gloves, pieces of paper with phone numbers on them, hotel receipts and £140 in cash.
Lawrence was caught on October 8 last year after West Midlands Police received a tip-off.
Her home was searched and bank statements showed payments of several hundreds of pounds paid into her account at random intervals over a period of at least a year.
Bodycam footage shows officer searching the boot of Lawrence’s brown Mitsubishi ASX before stumbling on an open box.
Upon seeing the box, the officer shouted ‘bingo’ before counting out nine vacuum-sealed packets of cocaine sacked inside the box.
Lawrence admitted possession with intent to supply class A drugs and was jailed for six years at Stafford Crown Court on Thursday.
