A drug dealer who bragged to an undercover officer his phone line was making £3,000 a day sold heroin and crack cocaine to pay off a debt. He was part of a county lines operation which saw him regularly travelling between Cardiff and London.
Ruben Carvalho, 28, played a managerial role in the enterprise which saw him looking after the "CJ drugs line", using the tag "Craddock". Between November 2019 and March 2020, the CJ line was estimated to have made £111,000.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday heard undercover officers were deployed to make test purchases in Cardiff under Operation Talon and an officer known as "Ian" came into contact with the CJ drugs line. Six different numbers were connected to the CJ line, initially based in London but with the defendant's help became established in Cardiff.
