A MAN who was involved in county lines drug dealing in Abingdon has been jailed for eleven years.

Dennis Obasi, 27, and his then girlfriend, Emily MacArthur, 31, smuggled the Class B drugs into prisons by using fake stamps to produce bogus legal letters coated with spice, a synthetic cannabinoid.

They also concealed drugs within packages for prisoners and used visits to smuggle them inside.

The pair were arrested in February 2020 at MacArthur’s flat in Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, where £50,000 of spice powder was discovered.

Less than a month after he was released, Obasi was then involved in county lines drug dealing, recruiting vulnerable people and teenagers to run drugs for him.

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He cuckooed flats in Abingdon and in Bath Road, Bristol, with more than £5,000 of crack cocaine and £6,000 in cash seized.

In Abingdon, officers discovered two teenagers, aged 14 and 17, working as drugs runners.

Obasi was jailed for eleven years and seven months by Judge Jason Taylor KC yesterday (November 11), having pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply a controlled drug into prisons, being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine, and possession of criminal property.

Meanwhile, MacArthur, formerly of Charlotte Square in Trowbridge, remains at large, having previously admitted conspiracy to supply spice into prisons and importation of a Class A drug.

The investigation begun when Border Force officers stopped three cocaine-filled parcels from Jamaica addressed to MacArthur at addresses in Frome and Bristol.

Officers from the South West Organised Crime Unit and the Metropolitan Police raided Trowbridge flat in February 2020, arresting the pair.

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This story was written by Anna Colivicchi, she joined the team this year and covers health stories for the Oxfordshire papers. 

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