Cops seize £500,000 of cocaine at cemetery handover

Drugs bust at Hawkhead

- GRANT MCCABE

Police seized more than £500,000 of cocaine from a graveyard drugs handover, a court heard.

Officers had carried out two raids within days of each other in Paisley in 2023.

Andrew Crossey had been the target of surveillance and he was clocked leaving his home in his white Audi on May 2.

The 42-year-old pulled up in the town’s Hawkhead Cemetery where associate Sean Teesdale turned up in a BMW.

The 28-year-old briefly got into Crossey’s motor before returning to his own and then driving off.

Prosecutor David McLean told the High Court in Glasgow that tracking police then tried to stop Teesdale at traffic lights in the city’s Nitshill area.