Police stop driver at M62 services - and find secret compartment stashed with drugs
direct to your inbox A drugs runner caught with 2kg of heroin at a motorway service station in Heywood has been jailed. William Ballantyne, 51, was arrested at Birch Services on Friday, February 28 last year.Police discovered carrier bag full of heroin and encrypted mobile phone stashed in a secret compartment in the floor of his vehicle.Ballantyne, of Mill Road, Lanarkshire, was jailed for four years and three months at Manchester Crown Court today after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply class A drugs.Detective Inspector Roger Smethurst, of GMP's Serious and Organised Crime Group, said: "Ballantyne was a courier for an organised crime group.