A prolific drug dealer from Maidstone has been jailed for 15 years after mobile phone videos exposed a sophisticated MDMA manufacturing operation capable of producing tens of thousands of ecstasy tablets.
In accompanying voice recordings, Stacey-Evans could be heard discussing manufacturing as many as 100,000 ecstasy tablets and arranging distribution of up to 20 kilograms of cocaine.
Investigators also seized over £3,000 in cash, believed to be the proceeds of drug trafficking, leading to an additional charge of possessing criminal property.
Criminal Scale and Organised Network
The mobile phone content further revealed Stacey-Evans’ plans to deploy runners disguised in fake business vans, showing his involvement in an organised and large-scale operation to flood Kent’s streets with Class A and B drugs, including cocaine, ketamine, MDMA, ecstasy, and cannabis.
Although the location of the lab was never discovered, the scale and scope of his drug supply were well-documented in the recovered media.
Police Statement
PC James O’Gorman, who led the investigation, said:
“The vast amount of evidence recovered from his phone clearly illustrated that Stacey-Evans was producing and supplying drugs on a commercial scale. He was intent on flooding the market with huge quantities of illegal substances and using fake business vans as a cover. Stacey-Evans has rightly received a significant sentence, reflective of the damage criminals like him cause to our communities.”
