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Joe Thomas

200k of cannabis found on Jersey ferry as man from Liverpool arrested

A man from Liverpool has appeared in court after the discovery of a £200k cannabis haul.

Customs officers found 9.7kg of cannabis resin as they searched a vehicle arriving on the island of Jersey by ferry.

A "commercial quantity" of white powder  - believed to be ecstasy - was also seized.

Officials from Jersey's Customs and Immigration department found the drugs as they carried out checks on a ferry that arrived on the island on Friday.

The vehicle had boarded at Poole, in Dorset.

The discovery of the drugs led to the arrest of Lukasz Przydanek.

The 39-year-old was charged with the importation of cannabis and appeared before magistrates on Monday.

He was remanded in custody.

Przydanek is a Polish national who lives in Liverpool.

His arrest came 24 hours after four men from Merseyside were sentenced for separate drugs importation offences at Jersey's Royal Court .

Neil Heskin, John O'Connor and Alan Smitton - busted twice (Jersey Police handout)

Alan Smitton was jailed for 17 years after States of Jersey Police placed him as a senior figure in heroin and cannabis plots.

The 47-year-old, who now lives in Jersey but is from Liverpool, was said to be operating in connection with a gang on Merseyside.

John O'Connor, David Arrowsmith and Neil Heskin were linked to Smitton's cannabis conspiracy.

O'Connor, 61 and originally from Wallasey, and 39-year-old Heskin, who had a stint in jail between spells living in Wallasey and Kirkby, were each locked up for seven years and six months.

David Arrowsmith, 57 and who lived in Jersey but is originally from Liverpool, was jailed for four years and six months for his role in a drugs plot on the island. Image: States of Jersey Police (liverpool echo)

Arrowsmith, 57, was jailed for four years and six months.

He lived in Jersey but is from Merseyside.

The island has because the street value of illicit substances can be double, sometimes triple those on the UK mainland.

It was this market notorious Toxteth drugs boss Curtis Warren was targeting when he was jailed on the island in 2009.

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