Montreal senior prison in the UK for trying to smuggle cocaine into a mobility scooter

UK border officials say that one of the major Canadians hoped for his life and that using the movement scooter will help him escape checking at London Airport in February.

Instead, Montrealer Ronald Larde, 71, was sentenced to six years in prison for drug smuggling. He admitted that he was guilty after eight kilograms of cocaine hidden in the back seat panel of motorbike he used to use.

“It is clear that he believed that because he was retired, he would be less target,” said Richard Wickham, the UK’s UK Crime Investigation Agency, a British work team that focuses on serious and organized crime. “It was wrong.”

The Lord, who gave the police a letter in the suburb of Montreal in Shatoligui, was sentenced to a six -year prison sentence in Caridon Crown. He admitted that he was guilty in August for first -degree drug smuggling.

This discovery was discovered on February 7, when the Lord removed a trip from Barbados in the Caribbean Sea region and went to the outlets on a motorbike. Border Force officials at Gatwic Airport X -rays to motorcycles and found cocaine, at the value of a street estimated at $ 1.2 million from CDN.

The police said that the Lord initially denied any drug knowledge, claiming that he was on a seven -day vacation to Barbados and was a UK tourist with plans to carry out some tourist attractions.

But after checking the airlines, investigators proved that he flew from Montreal to Bridge Town, Barbados, and spent three days there before flying to the United Kingdom

The search also found a screw in the Lord’s pocket, which they decided from the seat plate in the movement of navigation.

Officials also told CBC that the search for his mobile phone has resulted in messages with other individuals indicating that he would be paid for a “business trip”.

The drug hidden in dry ice, fake grass and cheese

In a press release, NCA said that the drug gangs become creative with those who use their mules.

“Organized crime groups need smugglers like the Lord to bring in the” A “drug” A “to the United Kingdom,” Wikham said. “It is sold for great profit by gangs that deal with violence and exploitation.”

A NCA spokesman told CBC, “The use of a mobility scooter is somewhat unusual in nature.

“But we see all kinds.”

In May, the 23 -year -old British Border Force arrested the United States, and was found with cocaine cracking of about $ 1.5 million. Summary inside a championship of Parmesan cheese with a length of eight kilograms. Jimmy Choi, from California, was sentenced to five to five and three months in prison.

Also this year, NCA has successfully sued other drug smugglers after finding herauls in elements such as Air compressorand Dry ice and Artificial grass.

As LORD is now making time in a British prison, Wikham from NCA said he hoped to think others would think twice before choosing to use the navigation device in the hope of deceiving border agents in the United Kingdom.

“I hope this issue will send a message to anyone who thinks about doing the same,” he said.