Drug Dealer’s Cash and Luxury Watches Snatched in Major Police Win
Gangster Locked Up for Over a Decade
Ged Shone-Porter was slapped with a hefty 10 years and 10 months behind bars in January 2022. He’d earlier admitted to conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs and possession of criminal property.
£14,000 Cash and Luxury Watches Seized
Police raided his Essex home and found £14,270 in cash, plus two luxury watches worth nearly £16,000. Financial bosses from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate moved quickly under the Proceeds of Crime Act to seize these assets, as Shone-Porter couldn’t prove how he got them legally.
A judge at Maidstone Crown Court gave the green light for the confiscation order in November 2022.
Encrypted Phones Helped Nab Drug Network
Shone-Porter was part of a slick criminal crew in Chatham and Tunbridge Wells, moving huge amounts of class A and B drugs. They used the encrypted phone platform EncroChat to keep their dealings under wraps.
But cops cracked the code in 2020 after French and Dutch police infiltrated EncroChat. The National Crime Agency then handed the intel over to UK forces, busting the supply chain wide open.
Drugs Factory and Coded Cocaine Operation Exposed
Inside EncroChat chats, Shone-Porter was spotted mixing cutting agents into cocaine, then pressing the drug into branded kilogram blocks. He was linked to a Maldon, Essex address where police caught him in August 2021.
He cheekily warned officers: “You probably wanna get your bin bags ready if you’re coming here mate.”
What followed was a massive find: a drugs processing factory with a press, 12kg of cocaine, mixing bowls, cutting agents, and 3kg of cannabis.
Detective Inspector David Godfrey said: “Most law-abiding people don’t stash £14,000 cash and designer watches without a proper explanation. Combined with the huge stash of drugs, it’s crystal clear Ged Shone-Porter made his money through crime.”
“This case shows that the law always catches up with criminals and uses the Proceeds of Crime Act to make sure they don’t enjoy their dirty profits.”
