Liam Hughes was jailed at Chelmsford Crown Court
- Credit: Essex Police
A drug dealer who ran an Essex supply line has been jailed after being caught with crack cocaine and heroin worth more than £13,000.
Liam Hughes ran the Aron drugs line in Clacton while on licence for previous drug convictions, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.
Essex Police s Operation Raptor North team began investigating the line in October 2020, and identified Hughes as responsible for its operation.
Hughes was arrested on January 28 when officers from Essex Police and the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Orochi team carried out a warrant at his home in St Marks Rise in Dalston, east London.
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A drug dealer who was caught selling crack cocaine and heroin in Harlow has been jailed. Madju Bari, 20, of Arabella Street in Bermondsey, was part of the Bishop drug line which was responsible for selling the Class A drugs in Harlow last year. On June 17, Bari was arrested and later questioned on his involvement in the drug line, but he answered no comment to all questions. He was then charged with being concerned in the supply of the drugs, and admitted to both counts at Chelmsford Crown Court on January 7. On February 22, Bari was sentenced to 32 months for selling both crack cocaine and heroin, and his sentences will run concurrently.
Inside the bag was 14 wraps containing a total of 12.86g of cocaine.
Watts, 30, was also found to be in possession of another quantity of 2.39g of cocaine and MDMA.
Sasha Bailey, mitigating, said things had started to fall apart for Watts when contact with his son ended at the same time as a relationship with his former partner.
Miss Bailey added: He started dealing drugs to pay off the debt and fund his own habit.
However, recorder Jeremy Benson QC told Watts a custodial sentence was justified .
At Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday, Watts was jailed for three years - less 49 days spent under curfew while on bail.
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