An organised crime gang lieutenant will be forced to sell a £30,000 stake in a house and hand over a specially-adapted Vauxhall, a court ruled.
Thomas Webb, 29, was found to have made £125,000 from his drug dealing enterprise.
And at Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday, Judge Ian Pringle QC signed off a confiscation order requiring the Holton man to hand over cash and assets worth a total of £35,940.
The sum was made up of a £30,000 stake in a house in Broadfields, Littlemore, and £5,940 cash already in the hands of the police, defence advocate Richard Furlong said.
Prosecutor Robert Forrest asked the judge to forfeit a Vauxhall Insignia adapted with secret hiding places used to store drugs or cash.
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Thomas Webb's mugshot picture: SEROCU
Webb, of Holton Turn, near Wheatley, was jailed or eight years in January for his part in the massive drug dealing operation.
He was pulled over in Cowley on September 16, 2019, behind the wheel of a Vauxhall Insignia.
Inside his car was a remote-controlled secret compartment containing a kilo of ketamine.
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Within 40 minutes of his arrest, another member of the drugs operation Malachi Charles was at Webb’s home in Broadfields, Littlemore.
Having first knocked at the wrong door, he used a breeze block to smash a hole in the dealer’s plastic front door.
When police arrived the kitchen had been ransacked, with an obvious space in one cupboard where an item appeared to have been removed – presumed to be drugs. Electronic cash counters and debtor lists detailing transactions worth thousands of pounds were found in the house.
Thomas Webb's remote controlled hide in his Vauxhall Insignia Picture: SEROCU
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