Scots Encrochat drug traffickers unmasked after learning fate over coke smuggling plot
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TWO hoods snared while boarding a flight to Amsterdam have been unmasked for the first time.
Mugshots of Jamie Montgomery, 44, and Darrin Campbell, 39, can be revealed after they were caged for orchestrating a drug smuggling plot.
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Jamie Montgomery was nicked as be prepared to board a flight to Amsterdam
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Drug dealer Darrin Campbell was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow
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The pair are the latest Scots hoods caged as part of Enrochat evidence haul.
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The pair were nicked as they waited to jet off to The Netherlands unaware cops had found incriminating evidence on their Encrochat handsets.
The duo, from Glasgow, are now banged up with scores of other Scots hoods who were nailed after using the encrypted phones to carry out their criminal schemes.
At the High Court in Glasgow, both were each jailed for four years and six months after they admitted being concerned in the sale and supply of controlled drugs.
They were also each made subject of Serious Crime Prevention Orders for three years which will come into effect on their release from custody.
Images of their cocaine stash were today released by prosecutors after the Glasgow pair were jailed at the High Court in Glasgow.
The pair had been part of a crime gang involved in dealing more than £500,000 of cocaine and cannabis during the covid lockdown in 2020.
Messages revealed the duo's illegal activities including Campbell moaning that Montgomery had him "working" on the warmest day of that year.
The pair, both of the city's Knightswood, had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of being involved in serious organised crime.
The pair were caught as part of the Operation Brumlow police probe into a crime mob.
Montgomery had the handle "Lets-Go' on EncroChat to communicate with fellow criminals while Campbell was known as "Reliantriver".
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We told how in August 2023 the men were arrested at Glasgow Airport with them due to get on a flight to Amsterdam.
Detective Superintendent Steven Elliot said: "Montgomery and Campbell were responsible for orchestrating a significant drug trafficking operation that posed a serious risk to our communities.
'Their actions were deliberate and driven by profit, with no regard for the harm caused by the supply of illegal drugs.
"This outcome demonstrates our commitment to the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce and the country's Serious Organised Crime Strategy.
"We will continue to target those involved in the supply and distribution of illegal drugs and use all available means to disrupt and dismantle organised crime groups operating in our communities."
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An image of white powder shared by Montgomery on his Encrochat handset.
We previously told how French and Dutch forces infiltrated the Encrochat network - leading to a wave of arrests across the UK and Europe.
Around 60,000 people across the continent used it, with around 10,000 of those users being from the UK.
Mystery continues to surround the people who made and supplied the handsets to hoods eager to keep their activities off the radar.
But the users came unstuck when French law enforcement cracked the system using software they have kept a closely guarded secret.
We told how a leading crimebuster said the takedown of Encrochat phones gave Scots cops the upper hand - and 'turbo-boosted' their fight against gangsters.
Miles Bonfield, deputy director of the National Crime Agency, hailed the impact of Operation Venetic, a hi-tech blitz that unearthed the activities of hundreds of hoods.
He said: 'It made a real difference to turbo-boosting some investigations that were already running and giving them the vital insight and evidential assistance they needed to prove their heinous criminality.'
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