More than £1.8m worth of cannabis has been seized from a Scottish port in the space of two-and-a-half weeks.
Around 51kg of cannabis was recovered by officers – with the help of a police dog called Harris – from a vehicle at Loch Ryan Port in Cairnryan, Dumfries and Galloway, on Monday 5 February.
Police Scotland said the haul was worth more than £510,000 and arrested and charged a 40-year-old man in connection with the discovery.
Two days later, cannabis reportedly worth a potential street value of £1.1m was seized after a car was stopped at the port.
A 32-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with that incident.
And on Wednesday 21 February, officers stopped another car and reported a recovery of £260,000 worth of the class B drug.
A 27-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with the incident and is due to appear at Stranraer Sheriff Court on Thursday.
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Detective Chief Inspector Caryn McIndewar said: “Our officers are committed to disrupting the drugs trade in local communities and will rigorously pursue every means possible to protect members of the public from this harmful criminality.
“Seizures such as this show our commitment nationally to the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce and the country’s Serious and Organised Crime Strategy.”
