Cannabis gang Trio ran same-day drugs delivery service around city

THREE men who ran a same-day cannabis delivery service across Bristol, using brown paper bags to make the deliveries, have been sentenced following an investigation by the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU).

- Alex DRISCOLL

Jake Herault-Redman, aged 26 from North Road, St Andrews; Callum Coen, aged 22, from Broadbury Road, Filwood Park; and Joseph Wilks, aged 30, from Fountaine Court, Eastville, all appeared at Bristol Crown Court on Monday.

The group promoted the sale of cannabis to customers on social media and an encrypted messaging app under their business name 'The Smoke Shack' and offered an in-person same-day delivery service to hundreds of addresses across Bristol as well as sending drugs across the country by post.

In June 2024, officers from SWROCU and Avon and Somerset Police executed a warrant at an address in Eastville, which was the hub of the drug supply operation.

Upon entry, Wilks ran at officers assaulting one of them before running out of the back door where he was detained.

Coen and Herault-Redman were arrested a short distance from the address having also fled the premises.