A high-scale drug operation based in Glasgow has been uncovered following an international investigation and a crime boss jailed for 20 years.
James Stevenson, known as the ‘Iceman’ pled guilty mid-trial over a plan to import 1kg blocks of cocaine into the city via banana boxes.
It has been said the Glaswegian ran a drug-trafficking operation on an industrial and global scale and has been linked to Ecuador, Spain, Abu Dhabi, London and Rochester in Kent.
The plan to import the drugs was initiated in a popular Alicante hotel in February 2020 when Stevenson met with a Glasgow fruit trader named David Bilsland.
Through a cross-border investigation plans were disrupted when French officers infiltrated an encrypted chat network in April 2020 and subsequently seized 18 consignments of bananas addressed to Glasgow Fruit Market between May and September 2020.
A number of associated have also pled guilty and are subjected to jail sentences.
James Stevenson, known as the ‘Iceman’ pled guilty mid-trial over a plan to import 1kg blocks of cocaine into the city via banana boxes.
It has been said the Glaswegian ran a drug-trafficking operation on an industrial and global scale and has been linked to Ecuador, Spain, Abu Dhabi, London and Rochester in Kent.
The plan to import the drugs was initiated in a popular Alicante hotel in February 2020 when Stevenson met with a Glasgow fruit trader named David Bilsland.
Through a cross-border investigation plans were disrupted when French officers infiltrated an encrypted chat network in April 2020 and subsequently seized 18 consignments of bananas addressed to Glasgow Fruit Market between May and September 2020.
A number of associated have also pled guilty and are subjected to jail sentences.
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00:00A high-scale drug operation based in Glasgow has been uncovered following an international
00:04investigation and a crime boss jailed for 20 years. James Stevenson, known as the Iceman,
00:09pled guilty mid-trial over a plan to import one kilogram blocks of cocaine into the city via
00:15banana boxes. It has been said the Glaswegian ran a drug trafficking operation on an industrial and
00:21global scale and has been linked to Ecuador, Spain, Abu Dhabi, London and Rochester and Kent.
00:27The plan to import the drugs was initiated in a popular Alicante hotel in February 2020
00:32when Stevenson met with a Glasgow fruit trader named David Bilsland. Through a cross-border
00:37investigation, plans were disrupted when French officers infiltrated an encrypted chat network
00:43in April 2020 and subsequently seized 18 consignments of bananas addressed to Glasgow
00:49fruit market between May and September 2020. A number of associates have also pled guilty
00:55and are subjected to jail sentences.