Gangsters who flooded town with crack jailed for36years
A “MAJOR” county lines drug gang operating from London flooded Bridgend with high quality heroin and crack cocaine.
Members of the gang were sentenced to a total of 36 years’ imprisonment.
The “Goldie” organised crime group (OCG) was responsible for selling a total of 3.29kg of heroin and crack cocaine between October 19, 2018, and May 23, 2019.
The group was run by Caine MorrisMcGibbon, aka Goldie, who controlled the line from south London, with the assistance of eight associates.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on March 15 heard Santana Donegan and Dejuan Bell trafficked the drugs from London to south Wales and controlled the hands-on dealing to customers.
Menna Thomas allowed her premises in Pencoed to be used as a base for the ‘Goldie’ line to operate from, where the drugs were prepared and stored ahead of distribution to class A users in and around the Bridgend area.
John Hauxwell hired the vehicle which was used by himself and gang members to deliver the class A drugs. Shaquile Oduleye and Tenika Brown facilitated the transfers of money from their accounts to Morris-McGibbon.
Aisha Mills and Joanne Gordon allowed their premises in south London to store wholesale quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, cutting agents and weapons along with facilitating money transfers for Morris-McGibbon, who also trafficked a 16-year-old boy to work as part of his drug dealing enterprise.
Morris-McGibbon, Donegan, Bell, Thomas and Hauxwell were convicted of drugs trafficking offences. Oduleye, Brown, Mills and Gordon pleaded guilty to offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Morris-McGibbon, 26, of London, was sentenced to 11 years and six months’ imprisonment. Donegan, 23, of Camberwell, London, was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. Bell, 24, of Lambeth, London, was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. Thomas, 29, of Pencoed, was sentenced to six years and six months’ imprisonment. Hauxwell, 46, of Brackla, Bridgend, was sentenced to a suspended sentence of two years. Oduleye, 27, of Lambeth, London, was sentenced to a community order. Brown, 31, of Lambeth, London, was
sentenced to a community order. Mills, 26, of Croydon, London, was sentenced to a community order. Gordon, 49, of London, was sentenced to a community order.
Following the hearing, Detective Sergeant Richard Gregory of South Wales Police said: “We have disrupted a major county line drug dealing gang jailing nine people involved in a significant organised conspiracy after a fiveyear operation which has taken a large number of dangerous people and substances off the streets.
“The case saw officers trawling through a vast amount of media data, phone analysis, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) along with forensic and tactical enforcements
which needed overlaying in order to put forward a meticulous prosecution case.
“We will continue to proactively target those we believe to be involved in drugs and use the powers we have to make sure their activity is disrupted.”
Detective Constable Adam Yeates, of South Wales Police, said: “County lines crime continues to be a problem which often involves the exploitation of vulnerable individuals in the supply of illegal drugs which causes harm to our communities. This sentence sends a clear message that individuals involved in the supply and transportation of harmful drugs into our communities will be brought to justice and dealt with robustly.”