WHAT’S IN YOUR CAB?
TAXI PASSENGER ON M6 NEAR CARLISLE WITH £40,000 COULD NOT EXPLAIN IT
A taxi passenger who was being driven through Cumbria on the M6 was carrying £40,000 in cash which he could not account for, a court heard. Cumbria Police applied to a district judge at Carlisle’s Rickergate court to continue holding the money for officers can investigate its origins. The Vietnamese passenger was in the country illegally and did not come to court for the hearing. A police financial investigator told the court that the taxi was stopped
was travelling south “at speed,” the court was told. The investigator said the man had no fixed address but after he was handed over to
immigration
as it travelled past the motorway’s Junction 41. The taxi – which had been booked legitimately from a firm in Birmingham – had been to Glasgow. It was stopped because it
officials he was released on bail. District Judge Timothy Gascoyne granted the police application. Cumbria Constabulary will be allowed to keep the money for six months while the investigation continues. The police application was made under powers from the Proceeds of Crime Act.
WELLINGBOROUGH DEALER FOUND WITH DRUGS IN TAXI IN RUSHDEN JAILED FOR 45 MONTHS
A 21-year-old man caught in possession of drugs and associated paraphernalia while travelling in a taxi in Rushden has been sen- tenced to three years and nine months in prison. Deon St Vie was a passenger in the taxi, which was stopped in Hayway, Rushden after the driver had picked him up from an address in Wellingborough in February.
Officers searched St Vie under the Misuse of Drugs Act and found he was carrying more than 122g of cocaine, a small quantity of cannabis, weigh- ing scales and bicarbonate of soda – used as a cutting agent.
LIVERPOOL MAN CHARGED AFTER GUN FOUND IN BACK OF PHV
A man has been charged after a firearm was found inside the back of a PHV in Liverpool. At 8.15pm on 29 September, officers stopped the PHV on Eaton Road as the passenger in the back was behaving suspiciously. They noticed a bag in the vehicle but the man then ran away before
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police could stop him. Patrols looked inside the bag and found a 2.2 revolver, four 2.2 rounds of ammunition and £100 in cash. On 5 October, Kyle Simm, 39, of Liverpool was charged with possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition and was been remanded into custody.
A search of his home in Welling- borough found a total of 247 individual wraps of heroin and 24 wraps of cocaine – all various weights ranging from 0.47g to 30.54g. A small quantity of cannabis was also recovered. In addition to this, two mobile phones, which contained advertising messages he had sent to publicise the sale of Class A drugs, were also seized along with an extendable baton. St Vie was charged with three counts of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs – heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine – as well as possession of a Class B drug (cannabis) and the possession of an offensive weapon in a private place. He pleaded guilty
to all five
offences at the earliest opportunity and on October 5, at Northampton Crown Court was sentenced to three years and nine months.
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