A Montreal senior has been sentenced to six years in a UK prison after being caught at a London airport with more than $1 million in cocaine hidden in his mobility scooter, authorities say.
Ronald Lord, 71, was sentenced on Sept. 5 after being stopped at London’s Gatwick airport on Feb. 7, according to a release from the National Crime Agency (NCA), a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom.
When questioned by border officials after being stopped at the airport, Lord said he was coming to the UK to sightsee after a 7-day trip to Barbados, according to the NCA release.
Officials x-rayed Lord’s scooter and found 8 kilograms of cocaine stashed in an inside compartment. The drugs were estimated to have a street value of CA$1.1 million….