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Manchester Evening News
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Thomas Molloy

Cops stop 'suspicious' Ford Focus in Salford - and find £130,000-worth of weed

Around £130,000-worth of weed was found in a car stopped by cops in Salford.

Officers spotted a suspicious looking white Ford Focus on Langworthy Road on February 7 last year, Manchester Crown Court heard.

After stopping the car outside a house on Southgarth Road, Spencer Candland, 36, got out.

Police found several vacuum-sealed bags of cannabis, weighing 13kg in total. It is estimated the street value of the drugs was roughly £130,000.

The house Candland was visiting belonged to Tony Partington, 30.

His home was searched by police, who then found a further 2kg of cannabis.

Tony Partington (GMP)

Candland, of Langworthy Road, and Partington were both arrested, interviewed and charged with possession with intent to supply class B drugs.

After pleading guilty, both men have now been jailed for two years and four months.

Spencer Candland (GMP)

Detective Sergeant Daniel Worthington, of GMP Salford's district, said: "Yesterday was the latest in a series of really positive convictions after the hard work of the Operation Naseby team in the last 12 months.

"Partington and Candland are unscrupulous individuals who were possessing cannabis with the intent to supply and make ill-gotten gains.

"Drugs themselves have a negative impact on society, but the drugs trade is a huge part of the ways in which organised crime groups operate and it is an absolute priority of ours to act on any information we have that can target such people involved in this criminal enterprise."

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