US EditionPensioner caught with cocaine worth £600k in mobility scooter at Gatwick Airport
Ronald Lord was sentenced to six years in prison after admitting to smuggling eight kilograms of cocaine hidden in his mobility scooter, exploited by organised crime due to his age.
- A 71-year-old pensioner from Montreal, Canada, named Ronald Lord, was jailed for six years after attempting to smuggle eight kilos of cocaine worth £640,000 into the UK in his mobility scooter.
- Lord claimed he was on a seven-day holiday in Barbados before heading to the UK for sightseeing, but investigators found he had lied about the length of his stay.
- The National Crime Agency stated that organised crime groups need smugglers like Lord to bring class A drugs into the UK for huge profit, and they target those who help them.
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Montreal Senior Jailed in the UK for Smuggling Cocaine in Mobility Scooter
A Montreal senior has been sentenced to six years in a UK prison after being caught at a London airport with more than $1 million in cocaine hidden in his mobility scooter, authorities say. Ronald Lord, 71, was sentenced on Sept. 5 after being stopped at London’s Gatwick airport on Feb. 7, according to a release from the National Crime Agency (NCA), a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom. When questioned by border officials afte…
71-year-old tried to smuggle £640k worth of cocaine into UK in mobility scooter - The Mirror
Ronald Lord, 71, was stopped at Gatwick Airport on February 7 this year with around £600,000 of cocaine hidden away in his mobility scooter. Lord was jailed for six years
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Pensioner who smuggled £640,000 worth of cocaine in mobility scooter jailed
Ronald Lord, from Montreal in Canada, was stopped at Gatwick Airport where border force staff found eight kilograms of the drug hidden in his…
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