‘Coke Air’ operators gets 40 years

A ‘Flying Dutchman’ drug dealer was jailed for 23 years today (Fri) for smuggling £2.5m worth of cocaine into the country hidden in the wing weights of a light aircraft. John Buwalda, 52, delivered the drugs to Polish national Jan Polak, 61, at a Holiday Inn hotel near Rochester Airport in Kent after the trip from Holland. The pilot had made the same flight and stayed at the same hotel ‘several times before’ being stopped on 30 June last year….