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James Rodger & Anna MacSwan

Van covered in £25K worth of cocaine after driver tried to throw bag out closed window

Police caught a driver. who tried to get rid of a £25,000 supply of cocaine, with white powder all over his cab after the bag split.

The man had reportedly tried to throw the class A drugs out of his van when he was stopped on the M5, Devon and Cornwall Police say.

But his window was shut - so the bag emptied its contents inside his vehicle.

It meant that when officers approached him, "approximately £25,000 of cocaine" was in plain sight, Birmingham Live reports.

In a post on Twitter, the South Devon Crime and Proactive Policing Team said that the driver had been on his way into Devon.

Sharing a picture of the scene they found, the force said: "This van was stopped on the M5 on its way into Devon.

"The white powder is approx £25,000 worth of cocaine which was scattered all over the cab after its owner tried to throw it out of the window (which was closed!)

"Great Team effort with Firearms, Traffic and Scenes of Crime"

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