Pictured: Jason Theobald
Re: A drugs gang has been jailed for a total of sixty-two-and-a-half years after South Wales Police disrupted a drugs run from London to Cardiff and uncovered a sophisticated and lucrative criminal operation.
Seven men were sentenced today after they were each convicted of being involved in the supply of Class A and B drugs at previous hearings at Cardiff Crown Court.
The jury heard officers from the force’s Organised Crime Unit confronted...
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Pictured: Jason Theobald
Re: A drugs gang has been jailed for a total of sixty-two-and-a-half years after South Wales Police disrupted a drugs run from London to Cardiff and uncovered a sophisticated and lucrative criminal operation.
Seven men were sentenced today after they were each convicted of being involved in the supply of Class A and B drugs at previous hearings at Cardiff Crown Court.
The jury heard officers from the force’s Organised Crime Unit confronted driver Stuart Jarman at Membury Services on the M4 on March 15th this year – and discovered 2kg of cocaine. Analysis of the Class A drug found it was 80% pure with a street value of £450,000.
Jarman’s arrest led officers to six other gang members – as well as a large-scale cannabis factory in Ammanford and another in Waunarlwyd, as well as an illegally-held live handgun.
The following are today starting lengthy sentences after being convicted of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs:
Stuart Jarman, 41, of Garden City, Rhymney, jailed for 6 years;
Lec Gjoka, 42, of Greenwich, London, jailed for 14 years;
Jason Theobald, 42, of Hill Street, Rhymney, jailed for 10 years;
Lyndon Evans, 37, of Wind Street, Ammanford, jailed for nine years;
John Knight, 36, of Pleasant Street, Pentre, jailed for 18 years.
Evans and Knight had also admitted a separate charge of conspiring to supply cannabis, alongside Anthony Vobe, 41, of Garnant, Ammanford, who was jailed for three years for conspiracy to supply cannabis.
A seventh defendant, Richard Phillips, 51, of Barnabas Close, Waunarlwydd, Swansea, was jailed for two-and-a-half years after he pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm whilst banned from doing so due to previous convictions, and conspiracy to produce cannabis. It was at his farm that officers located the firearm and one cannabis factory.
The second cannabis factory was located in Ammanford and – at the time of being raided – had the potential to net the gang a further estimated £70,000.
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