Two Middlesbrough drugs traffickers have been jailed, after changing their pleas to guilty at the last minute. Daniel Bowden, 38, and Ryan Grainger, 27, were due to stand trial for supplying cocaine across the region - but both men admitted their offences on Monday - the day their trial was due to begin.

The pals were caught after police stopped a BMW in the Netherfields area of Middlesbrough , on March 30. Officers were acting on intelligence that the car was linked to a drugs supply.

Bowden - who was dressed in a green tracksuit - got out of the car, threw a man bag away and fled. He was found hiding in some gardens on Fosdyke Green. Grainger was driving the car; he was arrested at the scene.

Police searched the men, the car and Bowden's home:

Bowden's manbag was filled with indi

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