Essex man jailed over £200,000 cannabis found in overweight van
Huntingdon Law Courts jailed Gjok Ndrevetaj, 33, of Southend for three years and four months on 20 October 2026. A March stop of his overweight van on the A1 at Norman Cross uncovered eight boxes of cannabis worth up to £200,000 plus cannabis-factory remnants.
🇬🇧 Huntingdon Law Courts; stopped on the A1 at Norman Cross · United Kingdom
Gjok Ndrevetaj, 33, of Heygate Avenue in Southend, appeared at Huntingdon Law Courts on 20 October 2026 and was jailed for three years and four months.[1][2]He had pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis.[1][2]
Road policing officers stopped his white Mercedes Sprinter box van southbound on the A1 at Norman Cross in Cambridgeshire on 2 March after noticing it was overweight.[1][2]In the back they found eight boxes of cannabis with an estimated street value of up to £200,000.[1][2]Officers also found plant pots, soil, clippings and heating-equipment boxes, described by police as the remnants of a cannabis factory.[1][2]
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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)
