15-05-2025
Glasgow drugs traffickers arrested while trying to board plane to Amsterdam jailed
Darrin Campbell and Jamie Montgomery were sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow today.
Two men have been jailed after setting up a huge drugs trafficking network. Darrin Campbell, 39, and Jamie Montgomery, 44, orchestrated the sale and supply of large quantities of cocaine and cannabis.
Their network was worth hundreds of thousands of pounds but their illicit activities came crashing down when cops cracked their encrypted messages.
Specialist police officers exposed their crimes when they intercepted their messages on the Encrochat platform that's favoured by criminals. Campbell and Montgomery were today caged for a total of nine years.
The pair, both from Glasgow, 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.
Today at the same court, Montgomery and Campbell were each jailed for four years and six months 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.
Between March 2020 and June 2020, Montgomery and Campbell discussed drug-trafficking plans, the court heard.
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.
Alongside that, he regularly made arrangements to buy and sell drugs and passed on information to Campbell who was the main point of contact for 'customers'.
As the drugs they sold were never recovered, a conservative estimate was placed on the value of the cocaine at £350,000. 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.
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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.
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.'
