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David Ollive communicated via an encrypted phone messaging app to co-ordinate the collection of the Class A substance from Coventry.
Ollive made at least nine trips between March 2020 and May of the same year to deliver 22 kilos of cocaine with a wholesale value of more than £830,000.
The courier was also trusted with the criminal cash which he would transport back to his employers.
Specialist officers with Northumbria Police working as part of Operation Venetic quickly uncovered the plot, and Ollive was arrested in October 2020.
He initially denied the offence and claimed the journeys were made in connection with a pool table restoration and supply business he ran.
However, Ollive, 29, of Southerland Avenue, Coventry, was charged with two counts of conspiracy to supply cocaine in February 2023, and pleaded guilty at Newcastle Crown Court in March this year.
On Thursday, he was sentenced to eight years behind bars.
