9:08 am, September 25, 2026
A pair of drug dealers who used a car showroom as a front for trafficking illegal substances have been put behind bars.
Businessmen Ben Terry, 35, and Mark Davidson, 36 used the Elgin-based Eliv8 Details Ltd, to cover up a £1.5m mail-order drug ring operating out of Scotland.
The duo registered the firm with Companies House but it never filed accounts and was in-fact a base for packaging and dispatching cocaine, MDMA, LSD, ketamine, ecstasy and other drugs.
While officially being registered for the maintenance, repair and sale of cars, the operation soon raised alarms with the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Police Scotland.
Parcels containing drugs and cash were repeatedly intercepted by Royal Mail, Border Force and police as the operation shipped orders to customers across the UK.
Terry and Davidson worked with an organised crime group in England, using Telegram accounts to take orders from dealers and individual users.
The drugs were then packaged at the Elgin premises and sent through the post for next-day delivery, with payments made in cash, by bank transfer or in Bitcoin.
The NCA eventually raided the showroom, along with properties in Garmouth and Mosstodloch, in February 2025.
Officers uncovered huge quantities of Class A drugs, including MDMA with an estimated street value of £715,000, cocaine worth £303,000 and 47,302 LSD tabs.
They also found ketamine, DMT, mephedrone and thousands of diazepam tablets, with the total haul given an estimated street value of around £1.5m.
Terry, of Dundee, and Davidson, of Moray, each pleaded guilty to 10 charges of being concerned in the supply of drugs between December 2024 and February 2025 and have now appeared at the High Court in Kilmarnock for sentencing.
Both men were sentenced to nine years and five months in prison, with each charge aggravated by a connection to serious organised crime.
Reacting to the decision, procurator Fiscal Sineidin Corrins, of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), said: ‘This was a coordinated effort to traffic significant quantities of illegal and harmful drugs throughout the UK from the Highlands.
‘These men are now serving lengthy prison sentences thanks to an extensive police operation, working with COPFS and other partners, to investigate a network of drug supply.
‘We are targeting all people who threaten communities across Scotland, whatever the methods or schemes organised criminal gangs develop to supply illegal drugs.
‘With each case of this kind, we can help reduce the harm these drugs inflict on those communities.’
Both men will also now be subject to confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act, which gives authorities the right to recover money obtained through the illegal operation.