Drug lord smuggled £76m’s worth of cocaine into UK using bananas
The ringleader of a plot to smuggle £76 million’s worth of cocaine into the UK from Ecuador in consignments of bananas has been jailed for 20 years.
Crime boss jailed for £100m plot to smuggle cocaine in banana boxes
A Scottish gangster who orchestrated a plot to smuggle cocaine worth £100m from South America in boxes of bananas has been jailed for 20 years. Jamie ‘Iceman’ Stevenson admitted directing the importation of the drug, which was seized by Border Force teams at Dover in September 2020.
Criminal dubbed real-life ’Tony Soprano' plotted to smuggle £76m of cocaine into UK in boxes of bananas
James Stevenson, also known as The Iceman, was described as operating in “much the same way as the Sopranos ran their business as shown on television”.
Manchester member of gang jailed after cocaine shipped to UK in banana boxes
A Manchester member of a gang that smuggled Central American cocaine into the UK in boxes of bananas has been jailed.
Wanted man sentenced for 20 years in prison after trying to smuggle £76m of cocaine into Britain hidden in bananas
A British drug lord known as “The Iceman” has been jailed for 20 years after admitting to a plot to smuggle cocaine with a street value of £76million through crates of bananas. James Stevenson, 59, pleaded guilty mid-trial at the High Court in Glasgow,
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Britain's 'cocaine banana' crackdown: Gangs that smuggled £200m of Class A drugs into the UK inside boxes of fruit are jailed for more than 100 years
A gang including one of the UK's most wanted men, James Stevenson, 59, was convicted of conspiring to import £100million of cocaine to Scotland from Ecuador. Stevenson, known as The Iceman ...
Smashing cocaine smuggling plot undoubtedly saved lives, say police
Law enforcement agencies have welcomed the jailing of James Stevenson and his gang, saying the international operation to ...