Police swoop on organised crime group after thousands of drug sales.
An investigation by Thames Valley Police’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit has ended with 60 years of jail time being handed out to a gang of 14 men.
The crime unit identified a Western Balkans group of men who operated six drugs lines throughout the Milton Keynes area, selling Class A drugs – cocaine – thousands of times each month to hundreds of customers from April 2022 to November 2023.
In July 2023, six men: Emiljano Bardhi, Eris Diva, Lorenc Kola, Admir Lala, Argys Hoxha and Romarjo Agolli, were arrested for conspiring to supply class A drugs where 1.5kg of cocaine was seized, as well as drugs equipment and nearly £10,000.
In November of that year, a further eight men from Milton Keynes, London and Sheffield were arrested for conspiring to supply class A drugs. These men were: Festim Pisli, Zeqir Pisli, Mevlan Pisli, Leonsio Cara, Arnaldo Dedja, Burim Selita, Laers Katana and Jozef Perzefi.
During the arrests in November, half a kilogram of cocaine, drugs equipment and nearly £50,000 were seized.
Zeqir Pisli, 30, of Wolverton, was sentenced to 13 years and eight months’ imprisonment in December in a hearing at Southwark Crown Court. In the same hearing seven other defendants were sentenced:
Festim Pisli, 36, of Stony Stratford, was sentenced to 10 years and three months’ imprisonment.
Arnaldo Dedja, 33, of Sheffield, was sentenced to five years and eight months’ imprisonment.
Burim Selita, 27, of Arnos Grove, London, and Laers Katana, 22, of Emerson Valley, were sentenced to five years and seven months’ imprisonment.
Mevlan Pisli, 39, of Newport Pagnell, was sentenced to four years and two months’ imprisonment.
Jozef Perzefi, 21, of Neath Hill, and Leonsio Cara, 28, of no fixed abode, were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
Others in the organised crime group were sentenced at an earlier hearing:
Eris Diva, 24, of Wolverton, was sentenced to three years imprisonment.
Emiljano Bardhi, 19, of Conniburrow, was sentenced to two years and three months’ imprisonment.
Romarjo Agolli, 27, of Wolverton, Admir Lala, 43, of Neath Hill, and Ergys Hoxha, 20, of Netherfield, were sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment.
Lorenc Kola, 30, of Barking, London, was sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment.
“The work by our Serious and Organised Crime Unit to bring this organised crime group down was significant,” said senior investigating officer Detective Inspector Natalie Hall.
“A substantial policing operation took place to arrest these men who played various roles to supply cocaine on a significant scale. The fact that this investigation has led to 60 years’ imprisonment for 14 men is a testament to the officers who worked so hard compiling evidence and seeing justice over a two-year period.
“We will continue to work with our partners and other agencies to bring to justice such groups, who seek only to make money from the production and distribution of illegal drugs, which bring misery and violence to others.”
