Stop leads to £150k PSNI cocaine find

THE police have seized “suspected cocaine” worth £150,000, it was revealed yesterday.

Detectives from the PSNI’S Criminal Investigation Branch said the drugs were found in Derry on Thursday.

A statement said: “They were seized after a Grey Volvo was stopped by police and the driver, a 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of Class A drugs in the Clooney Road.”

Officers found the drugs during a follow-up search at a house in the Birch Hill Meadows area of Antrim on Thursday night “and the examination of the Volvo car” on Friday.

The suspect was still in custody last night.

SEIZURE Drugs found