'Bingo' for Staffordshire Police in M6 Toll £750k cocaine seizure

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'Bingo' for Staffordshire Police in M6 Toll £750k cocaine seizure
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Police footage shows the moment the drugs are pulled from an old cardboard box in Linda Lawrence's car.

A woman has been jailed after more than 9kg of cocaine, with an estimated street value of £750,000, was discovered in the boot of her car.

Police bodycam footage captured the moment an officer opened a battered cardboard box and exclaimed "bingo" as he started to retrieve the haul of cocaine. Bank statements found at Lawrence's home showed payments of several hundreds of pounds going into her account at random points over at least a year, the force added.

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