A prolific drug dealer from Maidstone has been jailed for 15 years after mobile phone videos exposed a sophisticated MDMA manufacturing operation capable of producing tens of thousands of ecstasy tablets.

Jamie Stacey-Evans, 35, of Tree Court, Coxheath, was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on 20 May after pleading guilty to multiple drug supply and production offences. The charges followed a Kent Police investigation into the “Jay line” — a county-wide drug distribution network active since May 2024.

Shocking Video Evidence

Police uncovered incriminating footage on Stacey-Evans’ mobile phone during a search warrant executed at his home on 23 January 2025. The videos showed machinery used to grind crystal MDMA into powder and press it into tablets. One machine was even designed to count the pills, demonstrating a high level of production planning.

In accompanying voice recordings, Stacey-Evans could be heard discussing manufacturing as many as 100,000 ecstasy tablets and arranging distribution of up to 20 kilograms of cocaine.

Investigators also seized over £3,000 in cash, believed to be the proceeds of drug trafficking, leading to an additional charge of possessing criminal property.

Criminal Scale and Organised Network

The mobile phone content further revealed Stacey-Evans’ plans to deploy runners disguised in fake business vans, showing his involvement in an organised and large-scale operation to flood Kent’s streets with Class A and B drugs, including cocaine, ketamine, MDMA, ecstasy, and cannabis.

Although the location of the lab was never discovered, the scale and scope of his drug supply were well-documented in the recovered media.

Police Statement

PC James O’Gorman, who led the investigation, said:

“The vast amount of evidence recovered from his phone clearly illustrated that Stacey-Evans was producing and supplying drugs on a commercial scale. He was intent on flooding the market with huge quantities of illegal substances and using fake business vans as a cover. Stacey-Evans has rightly received a significant sentence, reflective of the damage criminals like him cause to our communities.”