Community service for man who met cannabis courier at Jersey Airport
Curtis Aubert, 23, was sentenced to 330 hours of community service on 30 April 2026 for his part in importing cannabis from Spain. He had met a courier at Jersey Airport in February 2024 who had swallowed 199 pellets containing about one kilogram of cannabis resin.
Curtis Aubert, 23, was sentenced by Jersey’s Royal Court on 30 April 2026 for his part in importing
cannabis from Spain.[1][2][3]In February 2024, when he was 21, Aubert met Evert Smallegange at the
Jersey Airport car park after Smallegange arrived from Spain; customs officers found that
Smallegange had swallowed 199 pellets containing 998.98 grams of cannabis resin.[1][2]Aubert,
Smallegange and Oliver Lucas were arrested.[1][2]
Smallegange was jailed for ten months and Lucas received a community service order.[1][2]Aubert
initially denied the charges but later admitted being knowingly concerned in the importation of
cannabis, possession with intent to supply, and failing to disclose his phone PIN to customs
officers.[1][2]Police found a further 446.11 grams of cannabis at his flat, along with scales and
self-sealing bags; the Jersey Evening Post estimated the drugs’ street value at £20,000 to £30,000.[2]
Aubert was sentenced to 330 hours of community service — 180 for the importation, 150 concurrent for
possession with intent to supply, and 150 consecutive for the PIN offence — and a one-year probation
order.[1][2]He had spent two months in custody on remand.[1][3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jailed Andrew Byrne, 45, for five years and one month after gardaí caught him transporting cannabis on the N7. Customs had intercepted a 42 kg package, valued at €840,000 and concealed in Tupperware, and he pleaded guilty to two counts of possession for sale or supply.
DNC officers in Nandigram, Bogura, arrested three people on 11 November 2026 and recovered 200 grams of ganja and five pieces of yaba. A mobile court jailed all three for one month of simple imprisonment and fined each 100 taka, and the magistrate destroyed the drugs on the spot.
Jade Hopkins, 35, was bound over to be of good behaviour for 12 months for twice taking cannabis into La Moye prison on behalf of a former partner a court found had intimidated her. The magistrate, David Le Cornu, said the offences passed the custody threshold but that her case was exceptional.
Andrew Chard, 39, was sentenced to four years and eight months in Jersey's Royal Court on 24 July 2026 for importing 24 kg of cannabis resin hidden in the bumpers and engine bay of a hire car. Customs found the drug when he arrived on the ferry from Portsmouth on 16 March 2026; the maximum street value was £593,000.
