A man has been jailed for three years after a large amount of cannabis was found in a car on the M6.
Officers stopped the vehicle on August 9 this year after they noticed it was driving erratically and at speed going south.
Bartosz Dwojacki, 25, of Tonbridget Road, Maidstone appeared at Carlisle Crown Court today he sentenced to three years for possession with intent to supply a cannabis and carry class B drugs with intent to evade prohibition on importing.
He pleaded guilty to the offence.
The court heard that officer stopped the vehicle, of which Dwojacki was the front seat passenger.
A large amount of luggage was in the vehicle, with Dwojacki having reported to have travelled from Thailand to Glasgow airport and was travelling to his home at the time the vehicle was stopped.
Dwojacki told officers the two suitcases and a duffle bag within the vehicle belonged to him and when asked to open the coded locks claimed he didn’t remember them and planned to break them when he got home.
Officers managed to open one of the bags and found a number of vacuum sealed bags inside which appeared to be cannabis and he was arrested.
The two suitcases were searched and contained a total of 48kg of cannabis.
Dwojacki’s mobile phone was examined by officers and confirmed that he had recently travelled from Thailand to the Scotland.
The messages found supported Dwojacki had imported the cannabis.
Those messages were:
- “As long as theres no smell lol”
- “Or ya anna get a taxi to maccies or summet”
- “Best to get away from there” referring to the airport.
- “Just because I know old bill float”
- “Okay bro, n yh told ya piece of p*ss qe only use routes that don’t get searched”.
Other messages found suggested that Dwojacki was intended to supply the cannabis to another party.
Detective Constable Lewis Young from Cumberland’s Community and Serious Organised Crime unit, said “Thanks to the vigilance of the officer who identified reasons to be suspicious of the vehicle travelling through Cumbria and was able to stop the vehicle containing a significant amount of cannabis.
“This brought to light Dwokacki’s offending following an investigation which made it clear that he had imported the cannabis and intended to supply it to another party.”
