Police used pagers to track drug deal

Three drug dealers caught after police monitored their electronic pagers
were jailed yesterday for a total of more than 20 years.

Sean TaylorSabori, 35, Michael Hahn, 32, and Colin Jones, 49, were
sentenced at Bristol Crown Court for conspiring to supply 22,000 ecstasy
tablets with a street value of £250,000.

TaylorSabori, of Eastville, Bristol, had denied the charge but was found
guilty after a trial in September. He jailed for 10 years. Hahn and Jones,
both of Southmead, Bristol, admitted their involvement and were given six
years and eight months, and three years and eight months respectively.

Commending the police operation that tracked the dealers, Judge John Foley
said: "A combination of hard work and modern sophisticated technology has
born fruit."

The three men were arrested in January 1996 after a ninemonth operation in
which police obtained a special court order for "parallel" pagers that
enabled them to monitor messages between gang members, and thereby keep
track on a consignment of ecstasy arriving from the Netherlands.