Overview

• Richard David Farmer received a 12-year term and Blaine Harvey was given 12½ years on July 18 after juries found them guilty of cocaine importation at Northampton Crown Court.
• Officers halted Farmer as he drove from Deenethorpe Airfield and seized a black wheeled suitcase containing cocaine valued at £4 million.
• Analysis of Farmer’s phone records linked him to Harvey, who was arrested on April 7, 2022, for coordinating a distribution network spanning Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Coventry, Kent and Essex.
• Armed officers from Northamptonshire Police worked alongside the NCA to execute the surveillance operation and effect arrests.
• After the aircraft flew on to Ireland, Garda forces detained three men who were later extradited to Sweden and convicted of related drug offences.