Martin Murphy was clocked in a cocaine handover, outside the Morrison's branch at The Fort shopping complex, and made a quick getaway when detectives attempted to stop him.
A crime gang "manager" escaped from police at high speed in his Range Rover after a supermarket car park sting.
Prosecutor Alan Parfery told the High Court in Glasgow: "Murphy drove away at speed and on the wrong side of the road narrowly avoiding other vehicles."READ MORE: Man banned from going near Rangers matches allegedly caught with weapon outside Celtic ParkThe man who Murphy had met - football scout Jordan McKinlay - was stopped in his van in the car park. A total of £452,000 of cocaine was found in a secret compartment of the vehicle.
After the supermarket bust, he texted an associate how "something happened" and the "boy had been pulled" by police.Murphy's home in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, was raided in October 2021 as part of the probe.
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