drug today agreed to hand over more than pounds 200,000 to settle proceeds of crime actions. Eric Reid, 48, was jailed for five and a half years for his role in turning out tablets containing the psychoactive substance Etizolam while his co-accused Scott McGaw, 35, was sentenced to five years imprisonment.
When police searched commercial premises in Back Sneddon Street, Paisley, in Renfrewshire, on March 1 in 2017 they found a pill press and a vast quantity of tablets worth in excess of pounds 1.6 million on the streets, along with quantities of adulterants.
Reid, of Johnstone, in Renfrewshire, and McGaw, of Paisley, were later convicted of producing Etizolam tablets, dubbed the Blue Plague, between May 26 in 2016 and March 1 the following.
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