A MAN was caught red-handed as he walked along a Glasgow street carrying cocaine with a street value of £160,000 inside a Cornflakes box, a court has heard.
At the High Court in Glasgow, 58-year-old Guiseppe Trimani admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine on September 5, last year.
Advocate depute Angela Gray, prosecuting, said: "Police were in possession of confidential information that Mr Trimani was carrying a large quantity of controlled drugs in Tinto Road."
The court heard that Trimani, of Windmill Crescent, Glasgow, was stopped by police who looked inside the shopping bag he was carrying and found two blocks of cocaine with a purity of 63%. He also had another two blocks of a cutting agent used to mix with cocaine.
At Cathcart police station, he was searched and £2550 in Bank of England £50 notes was found in his rear trouser pocket.
Sentence was deferred until next month.
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