Cops examined a number of mobile phones recovered from drug couriers and found numbers linked to Christopher Smith.
A criminal mastermind has admitted running a major operation from his prison cell to distribute Class A drugs in Scotland.
He admitted committing the offence at HMP Edinburgh and at addresses in the capital, Inverness, Nairn and elsewhere in Scotland between 8 March 2018 and 12 November 2019. Advocate depute John McElroy KC moved for sentence and told the court the Crown was seeking to have a Serious Crime Prevention Order imposed on Smith.
“The content of the dialogue between devices pertained to the onward sale and supply of controlled drugs, with the accused directing the owners of those phones to carry this out on his behalf as well as directly supplying controlled drugs.” The advocate depute said: "On examination, these devices were found to contain a large amount of drug related content including instructions to deliver controlled drugs.
A mobile phone recovered from the 24-year-old’s car was found to contain a large amount of drug related content. Due to the inflated price of controlled drugs within the prison environment, the Cocaine could be worth around £2,000 and the Buprenorphine about £16. Further messages related to the supply of Diamorphine with a potential illicit value of £10,000 and a tick-list with a value of £38,130.
Mr McElroy said: “From review of the content messages were extracted which demonstrate that the accused was supplying and directing Ruth Wardhaugh in relation to the supply of controlled drugs. An example of this related to the supply of 6 ounces of cocaine, for £7,000.
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