Ecstasy ring trio jailed

Three Queenstown-based men involved in an international Ecstasy-importing syndicate have been jailed.

Judge Brian Callaghan said in Invercargill District Court yesterday that it was believed drugs with a street value of up to $310,000 were brought into New Zealand between June and September last year.

Benjamin Robert Briggs, 29, received four years, three months' jail, Mathew Charlton Lile, 22, four years, five months, and Rueben Paul Aberdeen, 26, two years, eight months.