Police stop driver near M6 Stafford Services and find ‘boot full of cocaine’

A man was caught with ‘a boot full of cocaine’ after being stopped by police near the M6 Stafford Services. Officers discovered the lucrative stash when they pulled over Peter Wiggins’ Vauxhall Astra on Tuesday, November 26 last year.

Now the 55-year-old has been jailed for five years and five months after appearing at Stafford Crown Court yesterday. He had previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply class A drugs and possession of an offensive weapon.

The court heard that Wiggins exited his vehicle after being stopped and was detained by officers. When asked if officers might find anything of interest in his vehicle during a search, Wiggins told them there was a box in his boot.

Upon opening the boot, a large box containing 15 individually wrapped kilogram blocks of cocaine was found. As a result of the discovery, Wiggins was arrested at the scene and taken into custody.

Officers then conducted a warrant at Wiggins’ Cheshire home where they went on to seize over £500 cash, two bags and a tub filled with white powder, and a knuckle duster. Following forensic examination of the substances found at the property and his car, it was estimated that Wiggins had been in possession of a sizable quantity of cocaine with a potential street value of up to £1.5m.

During his interview, Wiggins provided no comment to all questions posed to him, failing to account for how the 15 individually wrapped packages containing class A drugs came to be in the boot of his car.

Detective Sergeant Roy Wellings, of CID Proactive West, said: “Disrupting the supply of illegal drugs in and out of Cheshire remains a top priority for the Constabulary, day in, day out and anyone who is brazen enough to think that they can get in or out of our county undetected, is sadly mistaken and underestimates our abilities. Peter Wiggins travelled to an address in the West Midlands, where he remained for upwards of two hours, before returning to Cheshire with a boot full of cocaine wrapped up in kilogram blocks.

“Despite quite clearly being caught out, he still refused to admit any accountability until the very last minute, when he had no other choice. We take this kind of criminality very seriously here in Cheshire, so let this result be a warning to anyone who thinks they can get away with drug dealing in our county without any repercussions.”

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