Drug dealers jailed after being found with £50,000

Police seized about £50,000 when they arrested the eight men in November 2023

Eight members of an organised crime group have been jailed over the supply of Class A drugs.

Thames Valley Police said the group, from the Balkans, operated drug lines in Milton Keynes and sold cocaine thousands of times each month between April 2022 and November 2023.

When the eight men were arrested on 21 November 2023 for conspiring to supply Class A drugs, police seized 500g of cocaine, drugs paraphernalia and about £50,000 in cash.

Six other men, who were also part of the group, were arrested in July 2023 on the same charge and sentenced on 25 January 2024 at Aylesbury Crown Court.

During that arrest, 1.5kg of cocaine was seized, as well as drugs paraphernalia and about £10,000 in cash.

Officers also seized 500g of cocaine

The eight men were sentenced at the same hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 20 December following trials and pleas throughout 2024 at Aylesbury Crown Court.

The longest sentence was for Zeqir Pisli, 30, of Aylesbury Street, Wolverton, Milton Keynes.

He was jailed for 13 years and eight months after a jury on 12 June found him guilty of conspiring to supply a Class A drug.

On the same day a jury found Mevlan Pisli, 39, of Barnsbury Gardens, Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, guilty of the same charge and he was jailed for four years and two months.

Zeqir Pisli, Mevlan Pisli, Festim Pisli and Laers Katana were all sentenced at Southwark Crown Court

The remaining six men admitted conspiracy to supply a Class A drug.

Festim Pisli, 36, of Hale Avenue, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, was jailed for 10 years and three months on 9 February.

Laers Katana, 22, of Culmstock Close, Emerson Valley, Milton Keynes, was jailed for five years and seven months.

Jozef Perzefi, 21, of Glazier Drive, Neath Hill, Milton Keynes, was jailed for three years.

Also sentenced at Southwark Crown Court were Jozef Perzefi, Arnaldo Dedja, Selita Burim and Leonsio Cara

Arnaldo Dedja, 33, of James Walton View, Halfway, Sheffield, was jailed for five years and eight months after pleading guilty on 9 January 2024.

Selita Burim, 27, of Palmers Road, Arnos Grove, London, was jailed for five years and seven months after pleading guilty on 22 November 2023.

Leonsio Cara, 28, of no fixed abode, was jailed for three years after pleading guilty on 12 March.