Drug dealer may have proceeds confiscated

Drug dealer may have proceeds confiscated

Stephen Darren (43) is currently serving a five-year sentence after he was sentenced in October by the Superior Number.

He admitted possessing and intending to supply £112,000 worth of cannabis, which was found hidden under his car bonnet in St Ouen.Since his imprisonment, the Crown had ascertained that Darren made £263,638 from dealing drugs.

the court heard.’Darren refuses to give us all of his financial details, which include the ownership of a property in Spain,’ Crown Advocate Sally Sharpe said.

She added that the Viscount’s department had already seized goods to the value of £64,426 and asked for that to be confiscated.

She also said that the Crown may wish to return to court to ask for further money, if they are able to get more details from the prisoner.Darren’s advocate, Caitriona Fogarty, simply stood up and said: ‘The order is not opposed.’Deputy Bailiff Michael Birt, who was sitting with Jurats Rumfitt, Tibbo, Bullen, Le Breton and Allo, made the order and granted the Viscount the power to realise the assets of all properties that had been seized.

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