A dog breeder and kennel owner has been jailed after being busted in a £10 million cocaine deal.
Benjamin Holt was one of three men found with more than100kg of cocaine in holdalls in the back of a white van.
Holt, 43, from Horam, is now behind bars after police found he was involved in one of the top-end cocaine supplies in the UK.
Officers from Staffordshire Police organised crime unit discovered the drugs after they spotted a meeting between two men in Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, on April 10 this year.
The pair were Adam Vorster, 41, of no fixed address, and Mohamoud Mahamoud, 29, of West Drayton in London.
Birmingham Crown Court heard Mahamoud got out of his white van and spoke to Vorster, who was standing next to a silver Honda. Mahamoud then took a black holdall out of his van boot and put it in the boot of the Honda.
Holt was sitting in the driver's seat of the Honda.
The police moved in and arrested all three men. They found 21 kilogram blocks of cocaine in the bag, thought to have a street value of up to £2.1 million.
The estimated wholesale value of the drugs is believed to be between £2,346,000 and £3,570,000, with a street value up to £10,200,000.
Holt, the director of Highlands Kennels in Horam who also ran a labrador, pug and French bulldog breeding company, has been jailed for 13 years and two months after admitting conspiracy to supply a Class A drug.
Vorster and Mahamoud were jailed for nine years and three months and seven and a half years respectively after admitting the same offence.
The three appeared at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday for sentencing.
A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said the amount of drugs seized suggested the three were involved in one of the top-end cocaine supplies operating across the UK. The network has been "significantly disrupted".
The spokesman said: "Activity like this is continuing each and every day across Staffordshire and neighbouring forces to target organised criminals who commit high-harm offences in our communities, including county lines drug distribution, illegal firearms activity, modern slaver and cyber crime."
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