More than £500,000 of cocaine seized including from drugs handover
Andrew Crossey had been the target of surveillance, and he was clocked leaving his home in his white Audi on May 2.
The 42-year-old pulled up in the town's Hawkhead Cemetery. Associate Sean Teesdale turned up in a BMW.
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The 28-year-old briefly got into Crossey's motor before returning to his own and driving off.
Prosecutor David McLean told the High Court in Glasgow that tracking police then tried to stop Teesdale at traffic lights in the city's Nitshill.
But, he drove off and was spotted chucking items out of the car window.
Teesdale was, however, finally halted – a total of £1605 of cash was initially discovered in the motor.
The discarded packages were also collected and found to be cocaine with a purity of 81 per cent.
The haul had a potential value of around £38,000.
Teesdale generally made no comment when quizzed, but did state: 'Wrong place at wrong time - I should not have been there and that is that.'
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Fingerprints linked both him and Crossey to the consignment.
Police, meantime, kept Crossey under watch – he was seen on May 11 with a yellow 'Bag for Life' and then getting into a white Mercedes van.
He was later clocked in Paisley, where 32-year-old Gary McGhee got in the vehicle and then left with the bag.
McGhee went into a property in the Shortroods area of the town, where police then swooped.
Officers checked the house, found the bathroom locked before McGhee opened its door.
Mr McLean: 'They immediately saw the yellow 'Bag for Life' on the floor along with what appeared to be blocks of controlled drugs, later identified as cocaine, as well as a large black handled kitchen knife.'
The drugs had a purity of up to almost 80 per cent.
The court heard the stash had a potential value of around £500,000.
Forensic evidence again helped pin the traffickers to this haul.
Crossey, of Paisley, admitted to two drug supply charges with McGhee, also of the town, and Teesdale, of Stewarton, Ayrshire, one each.
Lady Ross deferred sentencing for reports until a later date.
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