A lamb has been found in a car alongside roughly £10,000 worth of class A drugs in Scotland.
It has since been taken in by a local farmer, and inquiries are underway as to how it ended up in the vehicle.
Officers from Glasgow Roads Policing unit stopped a car on the M74 northbound carriageway, near J3 around 6:10p.m on Saturday (April 22).
A search of the car was carried pout with assistance from the Dog Unit and in particular, PD Billy.
Alongside the lamb, heroin, with and estimated street value of £7,000 and cocaine, with an estimated value of £3,000 were found.
Two men both aged 52 and one woman aged 38 were arrested and charged with drugs offences and have been reported to the Procurator Fiscal.
The driver of the vehicle also failed a roadside swab for cocaine.
In other sheep-related news, police in the Cotswolds are reminding dog owners to keep their pets under control to prevent livestock worrying following a recent incident.
Two sheep were killed and two more had to be euthanised due to the injuries they sustained following a dog attack on farmland in Moreton-in-Marsh in the Cotswolds on Thursday (April 20).
“Allowing a dog to worry or attack livestock is a criminal offence under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953,” Gloucestershire Constabulary said today (Monday, April 24).
