Three London men have been jailed for drug supply in Swindon following an investigation by the Dedicated Crime Team.
In June 2015, Abdifatah Mohamed, aged 25, and Danzel Mattis, aged 24, both from Tottenham, were arrested by officers as they travelled into Swindon in a black Smart car owned by Roemello Green, aged 22, also from Tottenham. They were found to be in posssession of mobile phones used for the supply of crack cocaine and heroin.
An investigation began which led officers back to London where Green was also arrested after he was found to be sending messages to Mattis about quantities of drugs being held to be sold on.
The investigation found that the trio had recruited a vulnerable woman in Swindon to sell drugs in the town on their behalf. She had been threatened with violence and was only able to stop after Mohamed and Mattis were arrested. She approached police and handed over £600 worth of crack and heroin. It was later evidenced that over the course of six weeks, this drug dealing operation had made approximately £20,000 from the sale of crack cocaine and heroin in Swindon.
This week, Mohamed was sentenced as the principal in that operation to a total of five years imprisonment, Mattis was sentenced to three years and nine months and Green was sentenced to three years.
PC Matthew Barnett, of the Dedicated Crime Team, said: “This case sends out a clear message that drug dealing will not be tolerated by the police or the courts in this town. We will continue to work tirelessly to identify, arrest and prosecute people involved in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin, especially those that target and abuse the most vulnerable people within our community.
“The police and courts take the coercion of the vulnerable seriously and that has been reflected in the sentences passed to these three men.
“We would like to continue to appeal to the local community to pass information about drug dealing taking place in your area on to us – I hope that sentences like this will show that we will always act on information we receive.”
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