Husband and wife, friend, jailed for association to traffic drugs

Updated 7.55 p.m.

Joseph Zerafa, who together with his wife Censina, on Monay admitted to association in the trafficking of 10kg of cannabis was jailed ffor 14 years and fined €40,000 by Mr Justrice Joseph Galea Debono this afternoon.

Mrs Zerafa was jailed for five years and fined 10,000.

Charles Camilleri, 41 of Marsa, who was found guilty by a jury earlier this afternoon, was jailed for 13 years and fined €30,000.

During the trial the police explained that they found Mr Camilleri and Mr Zerafa in a vehicle where the drug was hidden. They arrested them after a chase which a Police Inspector said was like an episode of Starsky and Hutch. During the chase Mr Zerafa phoned his wife, telling her to hide drugs which were at their home.