'Alright, alright, you got me man!' Moment police arrest cannabis gang advertising 'same day delivery service'

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This is the moment police arrest a cannabis gang that offered an Amazon Prime-style ‘same day delivery service’.   

Chaotic bodycam footage show officers storming the ‘Smoke Shack’ gang’s drugs den in Bristol. 

Officers holding shields are seen chasing after gang member Jason Wilks through the home who sprints into a garden and tries to scale a fence.

But police are able to grab hold of him before he escapes. As they scream at him to put his hands behind his back he is heard saying: ‘Alright, alright, you got me man.’ 

The brazen gang made branded clothing, and delivered the class B drug in a Deliveroo bag. 

They promoted the drugs operation on Instagram on social media and an encrypted messaging app offering ‘in person’ drop offs to hundreds of addresses across Bristol.

The audacious gang – who even made branded clothing and stored drugs in a Deliveroo bag – would also send drugs across the country by post and made more than £100,000 a month.

Jake Herault-Redman, 26, Callum Coen, 22, and Wilks, 30, all from Bristol, have now been jailed after appearing at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday.

The footage from June 2024, shows officers from South West Regional Organised Crime Unit and Avon and Somerset Police executing a warrant at an address in Eastville, which was the hub of the drug supply operation.

Pictured: Bags of the drugs that were seized by police during the raid

Pictured: Bags of the drugs that were seized by police during the raid 

This is the moment police arrested a drugs gang running a 'same day delivery' service known as the 'Smoke Shack'

This is the moment police arrested a drugs gang running a ‘same day delivery’ service known as the ‘Smoke Shack’

The brazen gang made branded clothing, and delivered the class B drug in a Deliveroo bag. Pictured: Items seized by police following the raid

The brazen gang made branded clothing, and delivered the class B drug in a Deliveroo bag. Pictured: Items seized by police following the raid

Upon entry, Wilks ran at officers assaulting one of them before running out of the back door where he was detained.

Coen and Herault-Redman were arrested a short distance from the address having also fled the premises.

Numerous weapons including machetes, air rifles, knives and baseball bats were recovered from around entrances to the address and a machete was found on the floor next to where the officer was assaulted.

Following his arrest, Wilks said to officers ‘the only reason I didn’t machete you in the head is because I heard you shout ‘police”.

At the time of the arrests, officers seized 7kg of cannabis, including edibles, and over £3,800 in cash. 

A further £13,000 of cryptocurrency was seized from Herault-Redman’s address along with over £3,330 worth of designer clothes.

A large number of black bin bags were at the property in Eastville and found to contain hundreds of brown sandwich bags each with a postcode and cash or crypto amounts written on them. 

The bags would be used to deliver drugs and payment dropped into the bag in exchange.

Joseph Wilks, 30, told officers after he was arrested that 'the only reason I didn't machete you in the head is because I heard you shout "police"'

Joseph Wilks, 30, told officers after he was arrested that ‘the only reason I didn’t machete you in the head is because I heard you shout ‘police”

Jake Herault-Redman, 26
Callum Coen, 22

Jake Herault-Redman, 26, and Callum Coen, 22, were also part of the ‘Smoke Shack’ drugs gang. The duo and Wilks have all now been jailed

Pictured: A Deliveroo bag seized by police during the drugs raid in Bristol 

At the time of the arrests, officers seized 7kg of cannabis, including edibles, and over £3,800 in cash

At the time of the arrests, officers seized 7kg of cannabis, including edibles, and over £3,800 in cash

Officers holding shields are seen chasing after gang member Wilks through the home who sprints into a garden and tries to scale a fence

Officers holding shields are seen chasing after gang member Wilks through the home who sprints into a garden and tries to scale a fence

All three men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class B drugs and acquiring criminal property, namely cash and cryptocurrency.

Herault-Redman was sentenced to three years and three months. Coen was handed an 18-month sentence, suspended for two years. 

Wilks pleaded guilty to an additional offence of assaulting a police officer and was jailed for a total of four-and-a-half years.

Acting Detective Inspector Stuart Cumine from SWROCU said: ‘We estimate the group was making in excess of a hundred thousand pounds every month over a significant period of time; they even had the audacity to have ‘The Smoke Shack’ branded clothing made to promote their illegal trade.

‘The sheer number of discarded brown sandwich bags found demonstrates the scale of their cannabis delivery service to people across the length and breadth of Bristol.

‘If you’re buying illegal drugs, you’re not only funding organised crime groups, you are ignoring the exploitation involved in their cultivation, production and supply.’




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