Bristol man jailed three years nine months over 24 kg US cannabis imports
Jamie Ivers, 34, of St George, Bristol, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on 8 January 2026 to three years and nine months after pleading guilty to importing 24 kilos of cannabis from the United States between May and November 2025, with a further 2.5 kilos ready for supply found at searches.
🇬🇧 St George and Speedwell, Bristol · United Kingdom
Jamie Ivers, 34, of Field Road, St George, appeared at Bristol Crown Court on 8 January 2026 and
was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison after pleading guilty to seven offences.[1][2]The South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) had linked him to packages totalling
24 kilos of cannabis imported from the United States between May and November 2025, which police
valued at £200,000.[1][2]
Officers executed warrants at two Field Road addresses and at a stash house in Craftes Court,
Speedwell.[1][2]SWROCU said Ivers assaulted an officer during the searches, where officers found
more than 2.5 kilos of cannabis ready for supply and £16,000 in cash, along with a zombie-style
machete at the stash house.[2]At the time Avon and Somerset Police were also investigating him
for dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice.[1][2]
Detective Sergeant Stuart Cumine said Ivers had supplied class B drugs at bulk and street level in
Bristol, particularly East Bristol.[1][2]The guilty pleas covered importation, possession with
intent to supply, possession of criminal property, possessing an offensive weapon in a private
place, assaulting an emergency worker, dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice.[2]
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The seven offences included cash, weapons, assault on an officer, dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice alongside the cannabis counts.
SWROCU put the import total at 24 kg with a £200,000 street value; warrants also found more than 2.5 kg ready for supply and £16,000 cash.
A second man from Kingswood was arrested in November 2025 on a conspiracy charge and released under investigation; no outcome was reported here.
Callum Roper, 22, of Holton Road, Barry, was jailed for 30 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting offences involving the supply of cannabis and magic mushrooms. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of both drugs between 3 December 2025 and 14 September 2026 and had been remanded in custody awaiting sentence.
Bolton Crown Court sentenced seven members of three linked drug gangs that trafficked cocaine and cannabis between Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. Five men received prison sentences of up to eleven and a half years, while two couriers received community orders and two leaders await later sentencing.
Daniel Thompson, 36, was found with 8,223.6 grams of cannabis resin, valued at up to £35,950, when officers searched a house on Moss Side Lane in Rixton in July 2023. Chester Crown Court gave him a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted possessing the resin with intent to supply and possessing cocaine.
Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.2236 kgPrison 9 months suspended for 12 months
Bradford Crown Court jailed Alfie Leahy, 21, for five years and Connor Broadbent, 26, for three years and four months over drugs found when police raided two homes in the Holmewood area at dawn on 17 July 2026. Cannabis was seized at a Grayswood Crescent address and cocaine, cash and jewellery at Dawson Street; police put the total street value of the drugs at more than £22,000.
Charged 2Prison 5 years (Leahy); 3 years and 4 months (Broadbent)
