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Moment female drug lord is arrested on EasyJet flight seconds after landing back in UK as she’s jailed with ex-husband
A BRIT was cuffed the moment her plane touched down after cops busted her for running a cocaine empire with her ex-husband.
Lisa Regan, 53, was grabbed as her EasyJet flight hit UK soil and marched off the aircraft by officers who had waited for her to land.
Footage shows Regan, who was returning from a sunshine break, dragging her suitcase across the tarmac before being bundled into a police van.
Regan and ex-hubby Phillip Jones, 44, have now both been caged for “overseeing a drugs operation supplying large quantities of cocaine to dealers in Swansea and Ammanford”.
Police said the former cleaner laundered their drug money through a café that Regan owned in Blaenymaes, Swansea.
Detectives uncovered phone footage of Jones slicing up a kilo of cocaine as the pair kept their operation running behind the scenes.
In October at Swansea Magistrates Court, Jones admitted five charges.
They were being concerned in the supply of cocaine, two counts of possession with intent to supply cocaine, concealing criminal property and driving while disqualified .
Regan also pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine, possession with intent to supply cocaine, and concealing criminal property.
She was jailed for seven years and four months.
Jones was caged for six years and eight months.
Cops said dealer Tracy Lewis, 54, who bought large amounts of drugs from Regan and ran his own network in the Ammanford area, has also been put behind bars.
Lewis, of Llandybie, Carmarthenshire, admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine, crack cocaine and cannabis, possession with intent to supply cocaine, possession of cocaine and possession of criminal property.
He was jailed for six years.
Sergeant Luke Tucker said: “Between them, Lisa Regan, Phillip Jones and Tracy Lewis were responsible for flooding our local communities with significant quantities of Class A and B drugs.
“They thought that they were above the law – but they will have been devastated to discover that their operations weren’t as impenetrable as they thought.
“They will now get the chance to reflect on that over their long prison spells.
“Their removal from society has made our streets far safer and better off.”
