Glasgow drug traffickers unmasked after pair captured boarding plane to Amsterdam
Two men jailed for setting up a huge drugs trafficking network worth hundreds of thousands of pounds have been unmasked for the first time.
Darrin Campbell, 39, and Jamie Montgomery, 44, orchestrated the sale and supply of large quantities of cocaine and cannabis through their drugs network but their illicit activities came crashing down when cops cracked their encrypted messages.
Upon intercepting their messages on the Encrochat platform favoured by criminals, specialist police officers exposed their crimes. Campbell and Montgomery were yesterday caged for a total of nine years.
The Glasgow pair were then snared as they tried to jet off to Amsterdam. They both pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow on March 31, 2025, to being involved in serious organised crime.
Montgomery and Campbell were each jailed for four years and six months yesterday at the High Court in Glasgow, 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 only come into effect upon their release from custody.
The court heard between March and June 2020, Montgomery and Campbell discussed drug-trafficking plans.
The purchase and supply of controlled drugs, adulterants, cash payments and collections were discussed in frequent messages exchanges between the men.
Montgomery also sent several images to Campbell of compressed white power, which was assessed to be cocaine.
As well as that, he regularly made arrangements to buy and sell drugs while passing on information to Campbell who was the main point of contact for 'customers'.
A conservative estimate was placed on the value of the drugs they sold as they were never recovered. The cocaine was valued at £350,000, while the cannabis was estimated to be worth between £27,000 and £60,000 a month.
The pair were arrested as they waited to board a flight to Amsterdam by police officers acting on intelligence in August 2023.
Sineidin Corrins, Deputy Procurator Fiscal for Specialist Casework at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), spoke about the importance of cracking the operation.
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Sineidin Corrins said: 'This was a highly successful prosecution which has removed a large quantity of drugs from our streets and caused significant disruption to the local supply chain.
'Jamie Montgomery and Darrin Campbell will now spend time in prison paying for their crimes thanks to an extensive police operation, working with COPFS, to investigate a network of drug supply. Drug trafficking wrecks lives and blights communities where drugs take hold.
'The Crown will continue working with the police and other agencies as a member of Scotland's Serious and Organised Crime Taskforce to ensure that these crimes are detected and those responsible prosecuted using all measures at our disposal.'
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