Brian Anthony Hughes, 30, from Ballymena, smuggled the drugs while delivering potatoes from the Netherlands.
A lorry driver from Ballymena has been jailed for smuggling cocaine while delivering frozen potatoes from the Netherlands.
Eight kilograms of the drug, with a street value of £480,000, was found inside baggage and in a locker. When Hughes was stopped, the NCA said he told UK Border Force officials he had been to Tilburg in the Netherlands. After initially making no comment to police, Hughes pleaded guilty to importing a Class A drug in court on 2 December.
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