While Stevenson was out jogging with another Scottish wanted man, convicted murderer Dean Ferguson, he was apprehended by Dutch national police.
Stevenson was reportedly astonished to find himself back in arrest, this time with no chance of escape, as he had assumed he was secure.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for organizing a global cocaine smuggling scheme that involved hiding the drugs in a shipment of bananas and establishing a drug factory in England.
While there are passages in this novel that read like a darkly comedic criminal thriller, Stevenson was a real-life mob boss.
The man referred to as a genuine Tony Soprano attempted to inundate Scotland with millions of lethal Etizolam tablets and a tonne of cocaine valued at an estimated £100 million. This occurred in 2020, the year with the highest drug-related mortality toll in the nation’s history.
Etizolam, also referred to as street valium, was linked to 756 deaths in 2019, which is half of the total number of deaths that year. It had been connected to 814 by the end of 2020.
Police are certain that while Stevenson made millions of pounds, a great number of lives would have been lost if he had been successful.
