Police had intelligence that the ‘large-scale supply’ of cannabis was being run from the residential property
19:46, 30 Jan 2026
Jason Lewis (Image: South Wales Police)
A search of a garden shed turned up 20kg of cannabis worth around £95,000, a court has heard. Officers had gone to the house in Swansea following information that the property was being used for the “large-scale supply” of cannabis. Along with drugs, police also recovered an extendable baton and £18,000 in cash from the house.
Sending 37-year-old Jason Lewis to prison, a judge at Swansea Crown Court told the defendant that whether he continued to involve himself with drugs was a matter for him alone, but said if he did so his sentences would “only get longer and longer”.
Emily Bennett, prosecuting, told the court that just before 7am on November 18 last year police officers executed a search warrant at the home address of Lewis in the Portmead area of Swansea after receiving intelligence that the property was being used for the “large-scale supply” of cannabis.
She said a search of the house turned up an extendable baton, some £1,520 in £20 notes in a concealed area in a shelving unit in the dining room, and quantities of cannabis resin.
Elsewhere in the house police found further quantities of cash. In a shed in the rear garden officers found 20kg of cannabis in bags and boxes along with a quantity of diazepam tablets, “powders”, and two weighing scales.
The court heard that the estimated wholesale value of the cannabis was £95,000 while the value of the cannabis resin was £10,000.
The prosecutor said the number of diazepam tablets had never been counted, and said emails to police seeking the quantity for the purposes of sentencing had gone unanswered. The total amount of cash seized was some £18,000.
In his police interview the defendant answered “no comment” to all questions asked. For the latest court stories sign up to our crime newsletter
Jason Arthur Lewis, of Pentregethin Road, Portmead, Swansea, had previously pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis with intent to supply, possession of cannabis resin with intent to supply, possession of diazepam with intent to supply, possession of an offensive weapon in a private place, and possession of criminal property – namely cash – when he appeared in the dock for sentencing.
He has six previous convictions for 11 offences including two offences of supplying cannabis from 2012 for which he was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months.
Judge Huw Rees said the defendant knew he was facing a sentence of imprisonment, and said whether he continues to involve himself with drugs was a matter only for him – but he said if the defendant does continue offending his sentences would “only get longer and longer”.
With a one-third discount for the cannabis and weapon offences and a one-quarter discount for the other matters – pleas entered later in the court process – Lewis was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
He will serve up to half the sentence in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community.
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