Two Luton drug dealers were jailed on Monday, March 6, 2023, for their role in a County Line operating in Cambridge.
During its operation between July 2018 and April 2019, the Jumbo Line sent out more than 37,000 messages offering heroin and cocaine for sale, Luton Crown Court heard.
Panache Gorerasa, 25, and Sydney Majee, also 25, were arrested in Wycliffe Road, Cambridge.
Nine wraps of heroin and three of cocaine were found by the side of the cooker £200 cash and two Nokia mobile phones were seen smashed on the floor.
One phone was for new drug line called Leo.
Majee had been in a Range Rover that was stopped by the police in Sittingbourne, Kent in September 2018.
£500 in cash was recovered from Majee. An officer who answered a mobile phone that was ringing non-stop was asked by a customer for “three white and one brown”, referring to wraps of cocaine and heroin, said prosecutor Alex Wright.
Police investigations also linked the defendants to SIM cards being topped up in Luton, Cambridge and Milton Keynes.
Gorerasa of Little Church Road, Luton and Majee of Russell Rise, Luton appeared for sentence for conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.
Gorerasa also pleaded guilty to offering to supply heroin and cocaine in Luton.
A Nokia phone had a message on it that read: “Back on with the best of both in town.” When the police raided his home in May 2021 he was seen coming out of a bathroom on the first floor. A mobile phone battery in the toilet and Nokia phone next to it.
It was thought the SIM card had been flushed down the toilet, said Mr Wright. £2,408 in cash was found and, in the loft catch, a Nokia phone which showed Gorerasa had been instructing a drug runner.
Gorerasa also admitted having no insurance and no licence when he was caught driving a Honda Civic in Luton in November 2020.
The court heard both men came to the UK from Zimbabwe when they were boys. Gorerasa has worked as a carer and a singer, who has built a recording studio in his garden.
Majee, who had been on a gap-year from a construction management course at Bedfordshire University, had been £10,000 in debt.
He had been working as a high-rise window cleaner. Recorder Howard Cohen told Gorerasa he had cuckooed the homes of others in Cambridge to run his drug activity.
He also had a runner working for him in Luton. He sentenced him to seven years in jail.
The judge told Majee that he was more than just a driver although he was below Gorerasa in the drug supply chain. He jailed him for 33 months.
The money seized by the police was forfeited.
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