Two men were jailed for four years each on Wednesday after police made seizures of heroin worth more than £130,000 following two separate police raids in Dundee.
David Lynn was found with almost a kilo of the Class A drug with a potential value of £98,000.
Officers stopped his car on the A90 as he ferried the consignment heroin to the city.
A separate raid by police on the same day at a house in Kingsway East, Dundee, caught Paul Crerar with a quantity of heroin that had the potential to make £37,000 from street sales.
Crerar, 46, who is unemployed, admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin.
The offence took place on Wednesday October 7 last year at Kingsway East and elsewhere.
He had previously been jailed for drugs offences.
Lynn, 49, who told police he was of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of the drug on the same date on the A90 near the city’s Gourdie Croft.
A judge told both men that they would have faced sentences of six years imprisonment if it had not been for their guilty pleas.
Lady Scott told Lynn he had been transporting heroin with “a significant street value” from Glasgow to Dundee.
Advocate depute Stewart Ronnie told the High Court in Edinburgh that Lynn was stopped by police officers and asked about the drugs he had in his possession in the car.
Lynn had indicated that he had received a bag that morning.
Defence solicitor advocate Rhonda Anderson, for Lynn, said: “He genuinely regrets his involvement.”
She added that Lynn had expressed “disgust” at his behaviour.
Jonathan Crowe, counsel for Crerar, said he had first taken drugs while at school.
Crerar had then gone to smoke heroin.
A series of tragic incidents in his life had led to him returning to use the drug and he had got into debt, Mr Crowe told the court.
He added that Crerar had been “put upon” to look after the heroin he was caught with.
Being in possession of a Class A drug with an intent to supply carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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