20 September 2024 , 16:01
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A Jersey resident has been jailed for two years and six months for supplying drugs and money laundering.
Timothy Ayers, 43, was sentenced in the Royal Court.
Ayers was found to have supplied Guernsey resident Darren El Mettouri, 42, with 830g of cannabis for £15,400.
The pair’s movements were monitored by Jersey Customs and Immigration Services, States of Jersey Police and the Guernsey Border Agency.
The court heard cash was exchanged in a bar
El Mettouri was jailed for four years and four months in April for the supply of cannabis and failing to declare cash at export.
The court heard El Mettouri gave Ayers cash worth £15,440 in a bar in St Helier on 19 May last year before they were both arrested.
The court was told Guernsey border agents found 830g of cannabis, a personal amount of cocaine and £600 after a raid at El Mettouri’s home.
Jersey customs and police officers found Ayers had £15,400 in cash, a personal amount of cocaine and cannabis, and a notebook with names and cash amounts.
’Covert activity’
The court heard Ayers admitted in an interview one reference in the notebook referred to El Mettouri and he also admitted to receiving £15,440 from him in the bar that day.
Ayers offered no explanation for the other nine names on the list with amounts totalling more than £100,000, police said.
Jersey Customs and Immigration Services senior manager Luke Goddard said the operation showed a cross-agency ability to "undertake covert activity against drug trafficking syndicates operating in the islands".
Authorities said an investigation into any criminal assets held by Ayers was ongoing.