JAILED JERSEY DRUG DEALERS TO HAVE THEIR ASSETS CONFISCATED
15/01/2025
Five men have been jailed after they were arrested and convicted in Operation Elf, a large-scale joint operation between Jersey Customs and Immigration Services and the police forces in Jersey and Merseyside.
- https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/operation-elf-men-face-confiscation-hearings
- https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/behind-scenes-operation-elf/
After being sentenced for their crimes, the five drug smugglers are to face “confiscation hearings”, where the money or purchases they made will be outlined.
DETAILS
The Royal Court heard that FIVE men tried to bring cocaine, ecstasy, THC and ketamine into Jersey on four separate occasions in 2022 and 2023.
The Royal Court sentenced THE GUILTY FIVE as follows.
- Two of the men, Ibrahim Abdullah Roslan (35) and Michael Anthony Quinn (34), were each jailed for NINE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR,
- While Aaron Nursaw (35) was jailed for nine years, and Kyle Samuel Dawson (28) received a sentence of EIGHT YEARS AND SIX MONTHS.
- 23-year-old Jordan Neil Barnett-Roberts was sentenced to 450 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE.
After being sentenced for their crimes, the five drug smugglers are to face “confiscation hearings”, where the money or purchases they made will be outlined.
- Nursaw and Quinn will face hearings on 28 February,
- Dawson, Barnett-Roberts and Roslan will appear on 11 April.
OPERATION ELF.
- It began in June 2022, when customs officers intercepted a postal packet from Liverpool addressed to Barnett-Roberts and containing 185 grams of cocaine.
- They substituted the drugs with fakes and sent them on to Barnett-Roberts, who gave the package to Roslan. Roslan was then seen taking it into a house with Dawson.
- Quinn was arrested in July 2023 when customs officers intercepted a postal packet containing 54 grams of cocaine and 2,500 ecstasy tablets. Phone and forensic evidence linked him to the drugs.
- And in October 2023, a parcel containing 164 grams of cocaine was intercepted. Roslan was arrested in Liverpool by Merseyside Police and handed over to customs officers, who escorted him back to Jersey.
- When Merseyside Police searched Roslan’s flat, they discovered 2,000 ecstasy tablets.
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