The boss of an organised crime group supplying drugs in Carlisle has been jailed for nine years.
Robert Smith, 37, of Garden Street, Carlisle, was sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court for conspiring to supply heroin and two counts of possessing criminal property.
On October 14 2022, police seized a kilogram of heroin from an area of land behind an address linked to Smith on the outskirts of Newtown, Brampton.
On January 13 this year, officers executed a warrant on a grey Golf linked to Smith. Hidden in the vehicle was £26,850.
On February 4 this year, Smith was arrested leaving an address in Wetheral, near Carlisle.
Police searched the property and surroundings and found with money, heroin and items relating to the cutting of heroin seized. Hand blenders used to cut the drug were also found and officers traced the purchase of these items back to Smith.
Officers seized over 1.1kg of bashed heroin, half a kilogram of compressed heroin and cutting agent.
T/Detective Inspector Brooker, of the serious and organised crime unit, said “Smith was the head of an organised crime group supplying heroin within north Cumbria, a drug expert estimates that Smith will have likely handled 7.124kg of heroin over the conspiracy period.”
