This is the moment armed officers swooped on a drug trafficker just seconds after he picked up £4 million worth of cocaine from a private plane at a remote UK airfield.
Richard David Farmer, 39, was caught red-handed at the edge of the runway at Deenethorpe Airfield in Northamptonshire, where a light aircraft had just landed from Belgium.
A black wheeled suitcase packed with 50kg of cocaine was handed over, but police were already watching.
As Farmer drove away from the scene, his car was stopped by officers from Northamptonshire Police.
When they stopped him and searched the car, inside they found 50 tightly wrapped brown packages of high-purity cocaine, ready to be distributed across the country.
The dramatic takedown was the result of a National Crime Agency probe into an organised crime plot to fly in drugs under the radar.
The plane involved later flew to Ireland, where three men from Sweden and Lithuania were arrested by the Garda and extradited to Sweden, where they were convicted of drug offences linked to the same operation.
Phone records linked the 39-year-old to long-time associate Blaine Harvey, also 39, who was waiting nearby to collect the stash.
The pair planned to move the drugs across several regions, including Kent, Essex, Bedfordshire, and their home city of Coventry.
Harvey was arrested at his home weeks later.
Both denied involvement but were convicted after an eight-day trial at Northampton Crown Court.
Farmer was jailed for 12 years, while Harvey received 12 years and six months.
NCA Branch Commander Lydia Bloomfield said: ‘This is a significant haul of Class A drugs brought in on a private plane in the hopes of avoiding detection.
‘Farmer and Harvey were working together under an organised crime group to deal them on our streets with little regard for anything but their profit.
‘These convictions will disrupt the upstream organised crime group behind this smuggling and we will continue to work to stop those who attempt to bring drugs into the country from overseas.
‘With thanks to our policing partners in Northamptonshire, Ireland and Sweden, we have taken a large quantity of dangerous drugs out of circulation.’