Snapchat drug dealer tried to smuggle 30,000 pills into UK using home address

A man has been jailed after he tried to get a huge consignment of ecstasy pills delivered to his own house.

Marshall Scurfield ordered 30,000 skull-shaped tabs on Snapchat to be flown from the Netherlands to his home in South Tyneside.

The class-A drugs, worth £140,000, were intercepted at Birmingham Airport and later tested positive for MDMA.

The National Crime Agency then sent a bogus package using the parcel tracking Scurfield had paid for. When they saw him open it on February 25, 2022, they pounced and he was taken into custody.

He later told investigators that he had ordered the drugs to pay for a drug debt.

Scurfield has now been jailed for four years at Newcastle Crown Court.

NCA branch commander Martin Clarke said: ‘Marshall Scurfield attempted to import dangerous class A drugs into the UK and thought that by using the postal system he would escape attention from law enforcement.

‘Working with our colleagues at Border Force, we were able to prevent a sizeable quantity of ecstasy from making it to our streets, where it would have created exploitation and violence.

‘We continue to pursue and dismantle high harm organised crime networks behind smuggling attempts like these.’

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