A police tip-off led to a van carrying a drug dealer being intercepted and two men being arrested, Inverness Sheriff Court was told.
One of them was 25-year-old Andrew Fraser of Gilbert Street, Inverness, who admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
The first offender was yesterday jailed for 12 months.
Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood was told that Fraser was the driver and that the passenger was searched by police and officers found a quantity of the drug in his possession.
But Fraser had £800 in his pocket as well as two pay-in slips each for £2,500.
Fraser claimed to officers that he was only providing housing for the other unnamed man on request from another in Liverpool.
The bank payments were each made to accounts in the Merseyside city.
The sheriff told Fraser: “Paying money in to a bank account of an itinerant friend shows wilful blindness that the only explanation was that this friend was concerned in the supply of drugs.
“The drug trade depends on people like you who facilitate the laundering of drug money. Only a custodial sentence is appropriate.”
