Nine men have faced justice
A prisoner ran a drugs empire from behind bars - while he spent 23 hours a day in his cell during the Covid lockdown. Safeer Ali, 41, was locked up in HMP Berwyn when he began sourcing cocaine, before passing details of customers, other dealers and quantities of substances to associates on the outside.
Riheem Hatfield, a cousin of Safeer Ali's, was 16 at the time when he became involved in the operation as a seller, before the now 20-year-old went on to supply to other dealers. Awais Ali, another cousin of Safeer Ali, acted in an 'organisational role'. As each of the men were arrested, a large amount of drugs, cash and paraphernalia was found. During the arrest of Mukhtar and Nadeem, police saw them throwing a bag of drugs worth £1,200 out of a skylight.
Messages were also recovered between Safeer Ali and Hatfield about the quantity of class A drugs, amounts of money and the cost of various drugs. "On June 23, Ali's cell was searched and the mobile phone was discovered and seized - three hours later he had a new number in use and active," Ms Johnson added.
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