Police in Swansea executed a search warrant at the home of Flynn Johnson-Andrews after monitoring his Snapchat conversations, leading to the discovery of a significant drug stash stored in a Tesco carrier bag in a spare bedroom. The 28-year-old was sentenced to four years in prison at Swansea Crown Court.
Details of the Raid
On June 9, 2026, officers acting on information obtained from Snapchat messages that suggested Johnson-Andrews was involved in drug supply approached his home address in Grandison Street, Hafod, Swansea. They saw him getting out of his car and heading for his front door, arrested him, and seized his phone. Johnson-Andrews told officers they would find ketamine and cannabis in a spare bedroom.
In that bedroom, police found a Tesco carrier bag containing a total of 623g of cannabis and packages of ketamine totalling approximately 2.7kg. The search also uncovered cannabis joints under the bed and on a bedside cabinet, as well as weighing scales in the kitchen covered in white powder. An examination of the defendant's phone revealed messages sent and received over the previous few days relating to the supply of cannabis.
Defendant's Background
Flynn Johnson-Andrews had previously pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis with intent to supply and possession of ketamine with intent to supply. He has five previous convictions for 11 offences, including possession of drugs of classes A, B, and C, and three counts of drug-driving. In 2024, he was sentenced to 32 months in prison for supplying cocaine and cannabis. At the time of the latest offence, he was out of prison on licence for dealing cocaine.
Andrew Evans, defending, told the court that both of Johnson-Andrews's parents had had drug addiction issues, saying, "It is perhaps not surprising that he is a young man with his own addiction issues." He conceded that a sentence of immediate custody was inevitable.
Sentencing
Judge Huw Rees acknowledged that it was not the defendant's fault that he didn't have the best start in life, and noted that as Johnson-Andrews approached his 30th birthday, he was left wondering what direction his life would take. The judge told the defendant he could be a "good teacher" telling people to give up drugs. With a one-third discount for his guilty pleas, Johnson-Andrews was sentenced to four years in prison comprising four years for the ketamine offence and six months for the cannabis offence to run concurrently.
