A drug supplier who was arrested as he stepped off a plane at Bristol Airport earlier this year has been jailed.
Police were waiting for Kane Evans, 29, when he returned from a holiday in Cyprus on 29 January this year.
At the time, he was under investigation by officers from the Cardiff and Vale organised crime team following a police raid on a property in the Welsh capital two months earlier.
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Evans was sent down for 40 months after pleading guilty at Cardiff Crown Court last Wednesday (13 May) to being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine.
The court was told that back in November last year, he was inside a flat in Mill Road, Cardiff, when officers from the local neighbourhood policing team executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
As officers forced entry, a rucksack containing crack cocaine was thrown out of the window of a bedroom, where they found and arrested Evans.
Officers seized two phones from the address, and one of them was found to be a drugs line linked to a separate investigation.
Officers waited for Kane on the runway as he stepped off the plane following his flight from Cyprus.
He was arrested and taken into custody, where he was charged with being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine.
Detective Constable Jon Grenville-Roberts said: "Our specially trained officers were able to link separate investigations to prove that Evans had been dealing drugs.
"Together with the drugs found during the warrant, it enabled us to put together a strong file of evidence which resulted in a guilty plea.
"He may have thought he had got away with it, but his holiday blues quickly set in as officers were waiting for him at the airport."
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