A British woman was arrested the moment her plane touched down, after police alleged she helped run a cocaine-trafficking network with her ex-husband.
Lisa Regan, 53, was taken into custody as her EasyJet flight landed in the UK, where officers were waiting to escort her off the aircraft. Video captures Regan, returning from holiday, wheeling her suitcase across the tarmac before being led to a police van.
Regan and her former husband, Phillip Jones, 44, have since been jailed for running what authorities described as a major drug operation supplying large quantities of cocaine to dealers in Swansea and Ammanford. Police say Regan laundered the profits through a café she owned in Blaenymaes, Swansea. Investigators also uncovered phone footage of Jones cutting up a kilogram of cocaine, suggesting the pair continued running the operation behind the scenes.
In October, at Swansea Magistrates’ Court, Jones pleaded guilty to five charges: being concerned in the supply of cocaine, two counts of possession with intent to supply cocaine, concealing criminal property, and driving while disqualified. Regan admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine, possession with intent to supply cocaine and concealing criminal property. She was jailed for seven years and four months, while Jones received a six-year-eight-month sentence.
Police also sentenced 54-year-old Tracy Lewis, described by officers as a dealer who bought large quantities of drugs from Regan and operated his own network in the Ammanford area. Lewis, from Llandybie, Carmarthenshire, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine, crack cocaine and cannabis, possession with intent to supply cocaine, possession of cocaine and possession of criminal property. He was handed a six-year prison term.
Sergeant Luke Tucker said, “Together, Lisa Regan, Phillip Jones and Tracy Lewis were responsible for flooding our communities with large amounts of Class A and B drugs. They believed they were untouchable, but they were wrong. Their lengthy sentences will give them time to reflect, and their removal from society has made our streets safer.”
