Cocaine dealer sent to prison

A DEALER caught on a motorway with cocaine worth £40,000 has been jailed for 32 months.

Craig McMeekin, 40, was in the passenger seat of a car on the A8 between Edinburgh and Glasgow when drug squad detectives pulled the car over. They found two large packages, totalling one kilo of cocaine, in jacket pockets.

McMeekin, of Staunton Rise, Livingston, admitted being involved in the supply of the class A drugs on 1 September, 2009.

Defence lawyer Kevin Dugan said: "He has been taking heroin and cocaine for seven years and debts mounted up to 20,000."