A North London lout has been caught with a gun in Essex. Richie Nkundo, 34, was caught with the stun gun, and £4,000 worth of crack cocaine and heroin in a Harlow home.
He’d been running the ‘CJ’ drugs line – flooding the local area with hard drugs between September and December last year. Essex cops raided the house and found the stun gun on the kitchen counter, with cartridges unearthed in the bedroom.
Phone records also showed he’d sold 594g of Class As, worth an eye watering £59,000. Nkundo – who had previous drugs convictions – admitted possessing a prohibited weapon and two counts of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.
The stun gun was found in the kitchen
(Image: Essex Police)
He was sentenced to three years and 10 months’ inside at Chelmsford Crown Court last Friday (January 3).
Detective Inspector Richard Trower, of Op Raptor West, said: “Across 2024 we dismantled more than 150 county lines operating in Essex. Often when we execute warrants and search the homes of these dealers, we find a wide range of weaponry – from zombie knives and machetes to the more unusual, but still very dangerous, items as seen in this investigation.
“A weapon of this kind which discharges electricity could cause serious injury when in the wrong hands, either through the victim suffering a medical episode or falling and hitting their head.
“Serious violence in Essex is often linked to the activity of these drug dealers.
“They’re not afraid to carry weapons to enforce and intimidate. But it does mean that for every drug network we bring down – and we’re constantly building cases against each line – we take these harmful weapons out of circulation and out of the hands of criminals.
“In this case, Nkundo was operating on his own and we found no other suspects linked to the ‘CJ’ line. This is unusual, but his previous convictions tell us he remained a committed drug dealer hoping to make an easy living dealing heroin and crack cocaine.
“He’ll spend a significant time behind bars to reflect on his actions.”
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