A British woman was arrested seconds after her flight landed back home after police blew open a drugs empire she ran from a cafe with her ex-husband.
Lisa Regan, 53, and Phillip Jones, 44, posed as pillars of the community running their Swansea eaterie in Swansea.
But behing closed doors they were secretly using the cafe to launder money they earned selling drugs to dealers to flood Wales with cocaine.
Yesterday former cleaner Regan was jailed along with Jones for ‘overseeing a drugs operation supplying large quantities of cocaine to dealers in Swansea and Ammanford.’
Footage shown in court showed her being arrested by police as her easyJet flight touched down on UK soil as officers escorted her off the plane.
Regan, who was returning from a sunshine break, was seen wheeling her suitcase towards a waiting police van as officers took her for questioning.
Detectives also found phone footage which showed pictures of Jones cutting up one kilo of cocaine.
In a previous October hearing at Swansea Magistrates Court, Jones pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine, two counts of possession with intent to supply cocaine, concealing criminal property and driving whilst disqualified.
He was jailed for six years and eight months, while Regan, who also pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine, possession with intent to supply cocaine and concealing criminal property, was sentenced to seven years and four months.
Police said dealer Tracy Lewis, 54, who purchased large amounts of drugs from Regan and ran his own operation in the Ammanford area, has also been jailed for multiple drugs offences.
Lewis, of Llandybie, Carmarthenshire, admitted 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 has been sentenced to six years in prison.
Speaking after the sentence, Sergeant Luke Tucker said: ‘Between them, Lisa Regan, Phillip Jones and Tracy Lewis were responsible for flooding our local communities with significant quantities of Class A and B drugs.
‘They thought that they were above the law – but they will have been devastated to discover that their operations weren’t as impenetrable as they thought. They will now get the chance to reflect on that over their long prison spells.
‘Their removal from society has made our streets far safer and better off.’
