Gangleader who ferried drugs from Nottinghamshire to Oxfordshire jailed

A Nottinghamshire gangleader who supplied drugs to an Oxfordshire town has been jailed after his operation was thwarted. Musa Njie, 34, used two mobile phone numbers to supply Class A drugs from the Nottinghamshire area to users in Banbury, Oxfordshire between December 2020 and March 2021.

Njie, who had been living at addresses in Eastwood and Hucknall in Nottinghamshire, used phone lines to send out bulk marketing messages to drug users and instruct customers where to get them from. After learning of this criminal enterprise, detectives from Nottinghamshire Police started to use cell site data to map his movements and analysed his phone content and transfer of data.

As a result officers were able to obtain evidence Njie had been travelling from Nottinghamshire to the Oxfordshire market town to contact lower-level drug dealers involved in the operation and customers. Following an extensive investigation Njie was arrested after police spoke to occupants who were in a car in the Radford area on March 11, 2021.

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Police then raided an address in Portland Road, Hucknall, where officers recovered quantities of white powder and drug equipment and seized mobile phones from the property. Njie went on to plead guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and he was jailed for seven years when he appeared for sentencing at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday, May 13.

Detective Inspector Luke Todd, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “As our complex work in cases like this one shows, we are continuing to do everything in our power to prosecute criminals involved in organised drug crime and to safeguard our communities and vulnerable young people who they prey upon and exploit for their own gain."