The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Undercover police catch drug dealers
Two dealers who turned a Peterborough neighbourhood into a ‘drug enclave’ have been locked up.
Trehmayne Clarke (22) and Kurtis Perry (19) brazenly sold heroin and crack cocaine from Clarke’s home in Field Walk, Eastgate, to desperate addicts – even while small children walked past.
Perry came to Peterborough from his Wolverhampton home on a regular basis, catching the train to sell the highly addictive drugs.
But the pair didn’t know police were on their trail and had launched a covert surveillance operation, secret- ly watching the deals taking place over six weeks.
In May officers pounced, arresting Clarke in a taxi in Rivergate near the city centre, and Perry at Field Walk. Clarke was carrying a ‘10 inch Rambo style knife’ and a lockknife when he was captured.
More than £2,000 in cash was also recovered from the two defendants and the Field Walk address.
On Friday the pair were jailed by Recorder Michael Kent QC at Peterborough Crown Court.
Clarke, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs, two counts of possession of class A drugs with intent to supply and two counts of possession of a knife at a previous hearing, was jailed for three years and nine months.
Perry, of Long Furrow, Wolverhampton, was jailed for three years after pleading guilty to two counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
Recorder Kent, sentencing, said: “You turned the area in and around your residence into a drug enclave - much to the dismay of those who lived there.”
The court heard Clarke had a number of previous convictions, including some for offences involving knives and dealing drugs. Perry was less heavily convicted than his co-defendant.
The drugs and knives were ordered to be destroyed, and a proceeds of crime hearing, which could see cash the pair made from dealing seized, will happen in the future.