FIVE men who flooded around £100,000 of crack cocaine and heroin into Bournemouth using drug runners on trains have been jailed for a total of more than 20 years.
The members of the drug gang were put behind bars following an investigation by Dorset Police and Metropolitan Police.
Officers established that the ‘Paz’ county line was being operated from south east London.
The line was using couriers to travel on the train to Bournemouth to sell crack cocaine and heroin in the Dorset town.
The drugs operation was in action from May 11, 2021, until August 11, 2021, with a turnover of just less than £100,000 during that time.
The investigation into the line began in early June after officers attended an address in Commercial Road in Bournemouth and discovered two men present, who were later identified as Tirique Scott and Dwight Anderson.
Both men were arrested and found in possession of quantities of crack cocaine and heroin.
It was later established that William Hutsch started the line and used Scott and Anderson to courier the drugs to Bournemouth.
A further arrest was made by officers from the British Transport Police at Bournemouth train station. Ismaiel Kallon was arrested as he attempted to return to London and was found to be in possession of over £3,000.
Further work identified Joshua Taylor as being the holder of the line and a warrant was subsequently executed at an address in London on August 11, 2021.
A search was carried out and 168 deals of crack cocaine were located, as well as the phone that was being used by the ‘Paz’ county line.
Co-ordinated activity was carried out in Bournemouth on the same day and Scott and Kallon were arrested with 60 deals of crack cocaine and 27 deals of heroin being located.
Detective Sergeant Simon Walters, of Dorset Police’s serious and organised crime investigation team, said: “We will relentlessly pursue serious and organised criminality across policing borders to ensure Dorset is a safe county for everyone.
“Through a proactive and intelligence-based approach, which involved teaming up with the Metropolitan Police and the British Transport Police, we were able to target the ‘Paz’ county line from beginning to end.
“This was a successful disruption, and we hope it sends out the message that if you choose to sell drugs in our county, we will proactively target those supplying the chain and everyone who is used to sell the drugs locally.”
Anderson, 19 and of London, was jailed at Croydon Crown Court on Friday, May 13. He received a 19-month sentence for conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of class A in Bournemouth to run concurrent to a total of six years and 10 months in connection with unrelated matters.
Scott, 21, Kallon, 19, and Taylor, 23, all from London, were sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on May 17.
Scott and Kallon pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to supply a class A drug and were sentenced to three years and six months and three years and three months imprisonment, respectively.
Hutsch, 19 and of Mitcham in London, was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of class A and he was sentenced to four years and three months in prison at a Bournemouth Crown Court hearing on November 11.
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