Drug dealer caught with £1.5m cocaine haul after police pulled over his Vauxhall Astra on M6 is jailed
A 55-year-old man has been jailed after he was caught on the M6 in a Vauxhall Astra loaded with cocaine, leading police to a £1.5m drugs haul.
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Peter Wiggins told police 'there is a box in the boot' when he was pulled over on the M6 near Stafford Services on November 26 last year.
Officers found a large box containing 15 individually wrapped kilogram blocks of cocaine and arrested Wiggins on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
Police officers then searched his house in Cheshire, where they found more than £500 in cash, two bags and a tub filled with white powder and a knuckleduster.
A forensic examination found the cocaine had potential street value of up to £1.5m, Cheshire Police said.
Wiggins, of Wordsworth Crescent in Blacon, Cheshire, gave no comment to all questions when interviewed by police but later pleaded guilty at court to possession with intent to supply class A drugs and possession of an offensive weapon.
On Thursday (January 2) he was jailed for five years at Stafford Crown Court.
Detective Sergeant Roy Wellings of Cheshire Police said after Wiggins was sentenced: "Peter Wiggins travelled to an address in the West Midlands, where he remained for upwards of two hours, before returning to Cheshire with a boot full of cocaine wrapped up in kilogram blocks.
"Despite quite clearly being caught out, he still refused to admit any accountability until the very last minute, when he had no other choice."
