London drug dealer jailed after being caught in car with 20k in cash and 1.5kg of cocaine
London drug dealer jailed after being caught in car with 20k in cash and 1.5kg of cocaine
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A man who was found with cocaine and £80,000 in cash in west London has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years. Gleni Goleci, 27, was stopped by officers from the Met and the National Crime Agency on Pottery Road in Kew last month. When they searched the Hyundai he was driving, they found 1.5kilos of cocaine and around £20,000 in cash in a hidden compartment in his boot, operated by a series of buttons which could only be pressed in a specific order.
When officers raided a flat in Holland Gardens, Brentford, connected to Goleci, they found a further six kilos of cocaine hidden behind a bed and inside a sofa, as well as around £60,000 in cash. They also found a replica Colt air pistol, scales, a knife, a notebook with "tick-list" and a large box of disposable gloves. The 7.5 kilos of drugs had an estimated street value of £350,000. Goleci, an Albanian illegal immigrant with no fixed UK abode, was arrested and charged with drugs and possession of criminal property offences.
He pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday before being sentenced. Andrew Tickner, of the National Crime Agency, said: "Our primary purpose is to the protect Londoners from harmful offenders like Gleni Goleci. "The serious criminality he was involved in fuels violence, intimidation and exploitation in communities. "The NCA and Metropolitan Police continue to work in partnership to disrupt the organised crime groups behind drug trafficking.
