Man jailed for three years over heroin seizure

A man responsible for large-scale drugs supply in the Falkirk area has been jailed.

Darren Heeps was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison at Edinburgh High Court after police in Forth Valley recovered over quarter of a million pounds worth of heroin last year.

Officers from the Proactive CID executed a drugs warrant at a property in Falkirk on 12 December, 2016, and Heeps was found leaving the address with a rucksack. The rucksack was searched and found to contain 2.5kg of heroin worth £270,000.