Drugs baron sentenced to thirteen years behind bars
December 4, 2009
Drugs baron, Curtis Warren has been sentenced to thirteen years in jail for masterminding a drug smuggling plot which could have seen £1 million worth of cannabis being smuggled into Jersey. Mr. Warren is famous for being the only known drug dealer to have ever featured in the Sunday Times Rich List. He is purportedly worth somewhere in the region of £300 million and amassed his wealth by investing the proceeds of his drug deals.
Plans to smuggle the cannabis into Jersey were allegedly set into motion by Mr. Warren and his gang shortly after he had been released from jail in Holland where he had completed ten years of a seventeen year sentence on charges of manslaughter, firearms offences and drug trafficking.
Judge Sir Richard Tucker said that he was not going to pass the thirteen year sentence because of Mr. Warren’s notoriety or history as an international drug smuggler but rather because it had been proven that he was the mastermind behind the cannabis smuggling plot. Five other members of his gang were also handed prison sentences of varying lengths.
Police surveillance teams had been watching Mr. Warren and his gang and had even managed to capture him on video saying the operation was just a starter. If the drugs had made it to Jersey then it is estimated they would have been worth around three times as much as they would be in the U.K. As Judge Tucker handed down the sentence Mr. Warren showed no emotion.
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