Moment Bristol police discover 1.5kg cocaine brick buried underground

Body-worn footage from Avon and Somerset Police shows the moment officers discovered 1.5kg of cocaine hidden underground

Detective Chief Inspector Ben Lavender said the sentences conclude a "significant policing operation" targeting a group of people supplying cocaine in Bristol.The first arrest was made in March 2023, when officers pulled over Austen Barnes-Sargeant in Filton after he was spotted driving erratically. In May 2023, officers carried out a warrant at the home of Carlie Bridges in Fitzroy Street, south Bristol.

A search of his car found him to be in possession of approximately half a kilo of cocaine. He was the sole occupant. Austen Barnes-Sargeant, Carlie Bridges, Kyle Joyner and Paul O'Shea were sentenced to 20 years in prison.Barnes-Sargeant was jailed for six years, for two counts of possession with intent to supply a class A drug, two counts of being concerned in the supply of a class A drug, one count each of possession of a class A and B drug, acquiring criminal property and possession of a weapon for the discharge of electrical incapacitation device.

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