Dad who brought £400k drugs into Scotland as county lines courier is jailed

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A press operator who brought nearly 40 kilos of cannabis to Scotland has been jailed for 18 months.Lukas Losinski was responsible for bringing drugs worth nearly £400,000 north of the border during a series of runs from Blackburn in England.The father-of-one, who lives in Dundee, started doing drug runs to make quick money after being asked to be a courier by a random man he met in a nightclub.Dundee Sheriff Court was told that Losinski - who initially claimed he did not know what was in the packages - was being paid £500 for each run he completed.Police Scotland got a tip-off about the illicit cross-border runs and found cannabis worth £78,110 in Losinski's home when they raided it on 19 January last year.Losinski, 35, admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis at his home between October 1, 2022 and January.

19, 2023.Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith said: "He must have known it was illegal. He clearly knew he was involved in an illegal supply chain.

On the journey he detected the smell of cannabis from the box."Police recovered eight slightly under-weight kilo packages of cannabis and I'm told that if they were sold 'as seen' they would fetch up to £6,500 each."If broken down into the lowest street deal the drugs recovered from him would have been worth £78,110.

That is a considerable quantity of cannabis."Unfortunately for you, the information the court was provided with is that you had carried out other cross-border trips to England and brought shipments of cannabis back to Scotland."It would be a legitimate inference for me to proceed on the basis that the other four trips you made involved similar quantities of cannabis," the sheriff told Losinski."I draw that inference from the fact you told police you were paid