A drugs kingpin dubbed “the Scottish Tony Soprano” has admitted trying to smuggle £100 million worth of cocaine after it was seized at the UK border in Kent. Six men pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle the Class A drug through the Port of Dover in a banana shipment from South America. The seizure of 119 packages had arrived into Kent on a vessel from Ecuador in September 2020. It followed a lengthy investigation between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Police Scotland called Operation Pepperoni. James Stevenson, from Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, was identified as being a key figure in…
