A 71-year-old Canadian from a Montreal suburb who was caught with eight kilos of cocaine hidden in his mobility scooter at an airport in Britain has been sent to prison for six years. Article content

Ronald Lord arrived at Gatwick Airport in London, England, on Feb. 7, telling British border agents he had been on a seven-day holiday in Barbados and was now looking forward to sightseeing in London. Article content

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U.K. Border Force agents x-rayed his mobility scooter and found anomalies in the seat. After disassembling the seat’s back panel they found eight cocaine bricks, tightly wrapped in black tape.

He pretended to be shocked at the discovery, according to the National Crime Agency, and told NCA agents who arrived to investigate that he had no i

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