Drug gang jailed for collective 10 years

Five people who conspired to sell drugs in Staffordshire and the West Midlands have been jailed for a collective 10 years.

Ramandeep Singh, 40, of Wolverhampton, was jailed for five-years-and-six-months after he admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine, conspiracy to supply MDMA and conspiracy to produce cannabis.

Marvin Wellington, 42, of Wolverhampton, admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and was jailed for four-years-and-eight-months.

Jamie Jeffries, 37, of Albrighton, Shropshire, was sentenced to one-year-and-11-months imprisonment, suspended for 20-months, after he admitted being concerned in the production of cannabis. He was also ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.

Arran Kumar, 30, of Birmingham, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis and was sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months. He was also ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.

Timothy Sutcliffe, 38, of Stafford, admitted being concerned in the production of cannabis and was given a 28-week sentence, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work.

(Ramandeep Singh)

Between October 2013 and June 2018, we investigated a drug network that was being used to cultivate and supply cocaine and cannabis in Staffordshire and the West Midlands.

Frontrunner Singh was arrested in October 2018 at an address in Wolverhampton. He had several mobile phones in his possession that contained evidence he was running large scale cannabis cultivations in the area, along with the importation and supply of a cutting agent used with high purity cocaine: Benzocaine, and MDMA.

This evidence then led us to the other co-conspirators, who were buying drugs from Singh to sell for profit.

All five were sentenced at Stafford Crown Court on 11 December.