Two London men have been jailed after an investigation into a Western Balkans organised crime group selling cocaine in Milton Keynes. Burim Selita, 27, of Palmers Road in Arnos Grove, North London, was jailed for five years and seven months, while Lorenc Kola, 30, of Beccles Drive in Barking, East London, was jailed for 16 months – both for cocaine supply offences.
Thames Valley Police identified the gang operating six drugs lines throughout the Milton Keynes area, selling Class A drugs, namely cocaine, thousands of times each month to hundreds of customers from April 2022 to November 2023. During the first raid and arrest of six men, 1.5kg of cocaine was seized, as well as drugs paraphernalia and nearly £10,000.
Then in November 2023, a further eight men from Milton Keynes, London and Sheffield were arrested, with police seizing half-a-kilogram of cocaine, drugs paraphernalia and nearly £50,000 in cash.
Jailed: Lorenc Kola pleaded guilty to a count of conspiracy to supply cocaine
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Zeqir Pisli, 30 of Aylesbury Street in Milton Keynes, was jailed for 13 years and eight months in December at Southwark Crown Court. In the same hearing, seven other defendants were sentenced, including Festim Pisli, 36, who got 10 years and three months. Others in the organised crime group were sentenced at an earlier hearing in January 2024 at Aylesbury Crown Court.
Senior investigating officer Detective Inspector Natalie Hall, of the Serious and Organised Crime Unit, said: “The work by our Serious and Organised Crime Unit to bring this organised crime group down was significant. A substantial policing operation took place to arrest these men who played various roles to supply cocaine on a significant scale.
“The fact that this investigation has led to 60 years’ imprisonment for 14 men is a testament to the officers who worked so hard compiling evidence and seeing justice over a two-year period. We will continue to work with our partners and other agencies to bring to justice such groups, who seek only to make money from the production and distribution of illegal drugs, which bring misery and violence to others.”
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