This was the moment Joshua Pope was arrested for drug dealing by officers from South Wales Police.
It was just before 1am on Sunday, June 9 (2025), and officers were waiting for him on the tarmac at Stansted Airport. They knew he was on board an inbound flight from Marrakesh where he’d just been on holiday.
Officers boarded just after it landed and they escorted Pope off the plane to be arrested. He was driven straight back to south Wales and taken into custody.
Pope was suspected of being involved in the running of the Oscar drug line in Swansea.
His arrest was the culmination of some detailed phone forensics through which officers were able to prove he was in possession of a device which was used to send bulk messages offering crack cocaine and heroin.
They were able to put Pope’s personal phone and the drug phone together on journeys across the UK from Swansea.
Officers had hoped they had dismantled the Oscar drug line in 2024, when they convicted another man – who is known to Joshua Pope – for seven and a half years.
But it soon became clear that the line had continued to operate, only this time with Joshua Pope at its helm.
He was charged with being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin and he went on to plead guilty.
On June 30, Joshua Pope, of Bryn Parc, Morriston, appeared at Swansea Crown Court where he was jailed for three years.
