The criminals jailed at Ipswich Crown Court this week

Samuel Roles

Samuel Roles was sentenced to 69 months (Image: Suffolk police)

Described as a drug dealer who "exploited others beneath" him, Ipswich Crown Court heard how Samuel Roles made £75,000 each year off his criminal activity. 

The 26-year-old, of Winthrop Road in Bury St Edmunds, was first caught by police in a BMW with an accomplice and was arrested after running from the car with a bag of cocaine with a street value of around £7,400.

While on bail Roles began ordering cannabis from the US and a package with his address containing 3.6kg of cannabis was intercepted at London Stanstead Airport. 

He tried to evade arrest by jumping over a garden fence in his boxer shorts before being restrained on the ground. 

The court also heard how threats had been made to Roles' family and there was an attack on this home of his mother and stepfather when he was getting more involved in the drug enterprise. 

Judge Nicola Talbot-Hadley sentenced Roles to 69 months in prison.

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Laine Henry

Laine Henry was jailed for four years (Image: Essex police)

Ipswich Crown Court heard how 35-year-old Laine Henry set fire to a tennis pavillion in the garden of a house in Ferry Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, on January 3. 

Henry, of St Andrews Way in Stanford-le-Hope, also tried to break into the pool house of a neighbouring property by throwing plant pots at windows on the same evening. 

When he was arrested he was found in possession of alcohol, a lighter and a pocketknife. 

He caused £50,000 worth of damage to the tennis pavilion. 

At the sentencing, Henry told the court how he had been in work and was an upstanding member of society until he was made homeless. 

However Judge Martyn Levett said Henry represented a danger to the public and would have to serve at least two thirds of his sentence before the parole board could consider if it was safe to release him. 

Henry was jailed for 49 months with a four-year extended licence period and banned from contacting the victims of the arson and attempted burglary.

Fabio Arifaj

Fabio Arifaj was jailed for 30 months (Image: Suffolk police) Ipswich Crown Court heard how officers stopped a black Ford Focus driven by Fabio Arifaj in Landseer Road and found two grip seal bags containing cocaine in socks hidden in the lining of the front passenger seat alongside £1,160 in cash. 

The 28-year-old, of Freehold Road in the town, produced a fake Italian driving licence but officers found a picture of an Albanian driving licence in his real name on a seized mobile phone.

A search of Arifaj's home uncovered a further £2,000 in cash and a fake Slovakian identity document.

The court heard how he was brought to the UK and told to deliver drugs after taking out a loan in Albania to pay for his mother's medical bills. 

Judge David Wilson sentenced him to 30 months prison and said Arifaj would serve 40% of his sentence under the government's early release scheme and be liable to deportation subject to a Home Office decision.