Pair convicted of running £1.5m drugs supply hub from Moray warehouse

On 7 January last year a Royal Mail employee in Elgin reported a suspicious package to the police. It was addressed to M Davidson at Speymouth Drive, Mosstodloch, Fochabers, and found to contain £1,000.

A further package was intercepted by Border Force personnel in Northern Ireland in January last year which was found to contain 1.1kg of cocaine. The tracking number revealed it was dispatched from Elgin.

Another package addressed to Davidson, at South Road, Garmouth, was intercepted and passed on to police. It was found to contain £1,780.

A police drug dog reacted to a package that was destined for an address in Hartlepool, which was discovered to contain a kilo of ketamine. The tracking number showed it had been posted at the post office in Buckie, Moray.

Following the discoveries, police were granted warrants to search the properties in Mosstodloch and Garmouth, in Moray, and a unit in Elgin.

Dickson said the search at the unit “disclosed a significant quantity of different drugs, most of which were in envelopes and other packaging in preparation for distribution through the Post Office”.

He said MDMA worth in excess of £715,000 was found along with £303,000 worth of cocaine, £236,510 of LSD, £111,050 of amphetamine, £36,900 of ecstasy, £77,864 of ketamine, £26,160 of the psychedelic drug DMT, more than £38,000 of mephedrone and dihydrocodeine valued at £18,350.