A dock worker from Portsmouth, who was involved in a plot to smuggle millions of pounds worth of cocaine into the UK in pallets of bananas was caught after police switched out the drugs for dummy packages. The suspect was on shift at Portsmouth docks in April last year when 372 pallets of bananas, originally from Colombia, arrived on a cargo vessel. Officers watched Jordan on CCTV separating pallets which he believed contained cocaine and move them to a separate warehouse.
What the suspect did not know was that police had stopped the 1,477kg of cocaine - worth an estimated £118m - at Vlissingen in the Netherlands. The National Crime Agency (NCA) and their Dutch counterparts then replaced the drugs with dummy packages.
The NCA shared intelligence with West Midlands Police, who arrested four men as part of their own investigation when the dummy load was transported to a rural location near Lichfield in Staffordshire.
Source: sky.com