Police dog finds drug courier found hiding in barn after he ditched BMW and £1,400 worth of cocaine

Published on June 20, 2019

A Somerset drug courier was tracked across fields by a police dog and found hiding in a haystack after he fled from police in Devon.

William Free was transporting £1,400 of high purity cocaine from Taunton to Barnstaple when police stopped his BMW on the A361 at Landkey, near Barnstaple.

He threw down the car keys and sprinted off when police told him they were going to search his car and jumped over fences as he ran towards farm buildings.

A police dog named Grommit followed his trail into a barn, where he found the 24-year-old hiding in a pile of hay bales.

He gave himself up to police when the handler threatened to release the German Shepherd.

Officers later found two golf ball sized lumps of 91 per cent pure cocaine in the central console with a combined weight of just under 14 grams. Read More