Nine members of organised criminal groups (OCGs) who were operating out of Nottinghamshire and two other counties have been jailed for 58 years between them. The drugs networks, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, also operated across three Lincolnshire and Lancashire locations and made almost £20,000 in less than 60 days.
One of the OCGs, dubbed the Django Line, was responsible for bringing drugs from stash houses in Nottingham into Lincoln and dealing in the High Street and other areas. The gang would send out mass marketing messages to addicts, or potential customers with drugs advertised in code.
A handgun was also found at a stash house in Nottingham, which Noman Hassan, 25, of Bentinck Road, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to possessing. Other weapons including a zombie knife, lock knives, and machetes were also found at another property in Nottingham.
