Two Essex men jailed 18 years for cocaine and cannabis supply
Basildon Crown Court jailed Elliot Reddington, 36, for nine years and nine months and Joe Mongan, 27, for eight years and eight months on 5 October 2026. Both pleaded guilty to cocaine and cannabis supply and firearms counts after February 2026 raids in Westcliff.
🇬🇧 Basildon Crown Court · United Kingdom
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Arrested
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Charged
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Prison
9 years 9 months (Reddington); 8 years 8 months (Mongan)
Elliot Reddington, 36, of Ashingdon Road in Rochford, and Joe Mongan, 27, of Fairfax Drive in Westcliff, were sentenced at Basildon Crown Court on 5 October 2026 after pleading guilty to all charges.[1]Reddington received nine years and nine months in prison; Mongan received eight years and eight months.[1][2]Both admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis alongside cocaine, firearms and other counts.[1]
Officers arrested the pair in early-morning warrants in Westcliff in February 2026 during an Essex Police investigation into organised drug supply in south Essex.[1][2]Police recovered large quantities of cocaine and cannabis, a handgun with ammunition, knives, mobile phones linked to dealing and thousands of pounds in cash.[1][2]Detective Inspector Yoni Adler of the Serious and Organised Crime Unit said the pair were prepared to use deadly weapons to protect their criminal enterprise.[1]
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Mugshots of Elliot Reddington and Joe Mongan. Photo: Essex Police.Photo details
Each prison term covers cocaine supply, cannabis supply, firearms, weapons, criminal-property and laundering counts together, so no cannabis-only sentence exists.
No weight for the seized cocaine or cannabis was published.
The February 2026 arrest addresses and the October sentencing court are both named; the report is dated at the sentencing step.
The Echo page gave no separate publication date in its opened text, so none is recorded for it.
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)
