Two Colombians involved in a plot to import and sell cocaine with a street value of £240,000 have been jailed.

Salazar Lozano, 28, of Pullman Court, Streatham High Road, and John Fredy Giraldo Duque, 24, of no fixed address, were busted by police after more than two kilos of the drug arrived in Streatham from Argentina on June 12 last year.

The two men received the 85 per cent pure cocaine at Lozano’s home before police, who had been tracking the package, swooped.

Salazar was arrested as he left the flat in a van, but Duque evaded the police and fled to Colombia, where he was eventually caught.

At Inner London Crown Court on Thursday September 30, Lozano was jailed for nine years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine.

Duque was jailed for five years and nine months after admitting conspiracy to supply cocaine.

Police tracked the package after they were contacted by customs when a suspicious parcel sent to a flat in West Dulwich was found to contain about two kilos of cocaine.

Customs identified the package to be delivered to the Streatham address had the same delivery number so it was tracked by Lambeth’s specialist drugs and gang team, Omega, in case it led to the dealers.

Omega Detective Inspector Spencer Barnett said the complex operation had stopped a large quantity of cocaine from flooding the streets of south London and had seen the two offenders get lengthy prison sentences.

He said: “Lambeth police continues to target those who supply drugs into the community and ruin the lives of people in our community.”