Jailed: South Londoners who ‘flooded’ Wales with crack and heroin – Southwark News

A group of south London men who ‘flooded’ Wales with crack and heroin have been jailed.

Nine people have been sentenced for their roles in the county lines drug operation, including gang members from Camberwell and Lambeth, after a hearing on Friday, March 15.

The south London cohort included Santana Donegan, 23, from Camberwell, Dejuan Maurice Bell, from Lambeth, Shaquile Oduleye, 27, from South Lambeth, and Tenika Brown, 31, from Lambeth.

Police said the success of Operation ‘Goldie’ had “disrupted a major county line drug dealing gang”.

Detectives say the gang ran the drug trafficking route from London to the Bridgend area of Wales between October 2018 and May 2019.

According to police, they ‘flooded’ the region with heroin and crack cocaine – the total quantity equating to 3.29kg.

The head of the county line was Caine Morris-McGibbon (AKA ‘Goldie’), who controlled the ‘line’ from south London.

He also trafficked a sixteen-year-old boy to work as part of his drug-dealing enterprise.

A network of other individuals played vital roles in the operation.

Donegal and Bell trafficked the drugs from London to south Wales and controlled the hands-on dealing with customers.

Oduleye and Brown facilitated the transfers of money from their own accounts to Morris-McGibbon.

Detective Sergeant Richard Gregory said: “We have disrupted a major county line drug dealing gang jailing nine people involved in a significant organised conspiracy after a five-year 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 to 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.”

The sentences were as follows:

• Caine Jardel Morris-McGibbon – 26, from London – 11 years and six months
• Santana Donegan – 23, from Camberwell, London – eight years
• Dejuan Maurice Bell – 24, from Lambeth, London – eight years
• Menna Louise Thomas – 29, Pencoed, Bridgend – six years and six months
• John Hauxwell – 46, from Brackla – two-year suspended sentence
• Shaquile Oduleye – 27, from South Lambeth – Community Order for Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) offences
• Tenika Brown – 31, from Lambeth, London – Community Order for Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) offences
• Aisha Mills – 26, from Croydon – Community Order for Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) offences
• Joanne Gordon – 49, from London – Community Order for Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) offences