Newport drug dealer caught after WhatsApp chat

He looked like a hardworking father who lived in a modest, at the end of December in a house.

“There was nothing flash about him, this person was a drug dealer,” said Robert Andrews Jr.

The 34 -year -old was not even on the police radar until he found messages from another gang leader’s phone, they were gonna joke or “shared a cell” because they were joking or regularly listed six -digit drug agreements.

The detectives immediately noticed that Andrews JR was the brain of a millions of pounds of drug empire selling cocaine and heroin on an industrial scale.

The secret police shots soon caught Andrews JR.

“He looked like an average man, always wore work clothes, lived in a normal house with his wife and children.” Catching a BBC crime boss.

“There was no high -valuable vehicle, no designer clothes.”

When the officers found some WhatsApp messages on another drug Kingpin’s phone called Kerry Evans, organized crime detectives were warned against Andrews JR.

Evans lived 48 km away in Merthyr Tydfil, and after arrest, researchers found that Evans regularly texted to regulate drug agreements and payments.

This number belonged to a Robert Andrews JR from Newport.

Evans He was sentenced to 14 years and five months in prison Last year and Andrews JR would soon follow.

“It doesn’t require a mass information, sometimes a small ingot that can start,” Gwent Police’s Det Insp Ian Bartholomew confessed.

WhatsApp stock exchanges were warned that Andrews JR is a “high -level” seller and that detectives were warned that “advanced tactics” should be “difficult to capture”.

Andrews JR’s supervision quickly revealed the underground world.

The secret officers – operation name Mayland – him, a sequence of a secluded forest near the busy M4 highway where several drug exchanges were caught on the camera.

“This was a certain interest during this investigation.”

He continued: “We noticed that there was too much guilt in this cleaned area.”

This location is simply known as “cleaning”.

“It was a very busy area,” he added.

“If you just knew or had certain instructions, you would go there, so it would be a real secure place where the organized crime group could carry out the guilt and feel like it wasn’t in the eyes of the people.”

A stock market, Andrews Jr.

The street value caused him to be sentenced to £ 200,000 and Yamin was sentenced to six and a half imprisonment with the intention of supplying.

The surveillance showed how Andrews uses “coins” to make sure that Jr’s money came to the supplier.

In a stock market, a man who entered his car and then took £ 5 bank grade.

He didn’t know the man, but he knew he was a cash runner from London to collect the money he owed to his supplier.

The unique serial number in the bank grade was the authentication it needed to allow him to deliver the money to the right person.

Cash Runner’s bag was later seized and found £ 109,000.

The investigation found evidence that Andrews JR made regular payments similar to the supplier on his phone.

It paid a total of £ 650,000 to its suppliers in just two weeks, showing the scale of the operation.

The secret officers were sure that they were watching an organized crime group in motion, and in 2023, just before Christmas, they raided Andrews Jr’s house in the early morning.

At a final attempt to cover up the tracks, Andrews JR threw his mobile phone on his wardrobe just before the police exploded in the room to arrest him.

As the officer was handcuffed and identified the reasons for the arrest of the secret officer, he laughed and said, “He looked quite unhappy.”

The mobile phone was recovered and proved that it was very important for the investigation because it contains detailed diaries who owed it to him, how much he owed him, and he owed to his suppliers.

“Robert Andrews wasn’t someone in a street corner or his friends,” Det Ch Supt Andrew Tuck said. He said.

He continued: “At a time, a bag of sugar was dealing with large amounts of controlled drugs that would equalize the size of sugar with cocaine.”

The police accepted Andrews JR as the main member of an organized crime group supplying cocaine and heroin in South Wales.

“When you look at the relevant cash quantities, we talk dozens of thousands of pounds per stock market for four or five pounds of cocaine at a time.”

Although Andrews JR did not show symptoms of illegal reserve through “flash cars or expensive designer clothes”, the police thought that the police made drug money to build a new house in the secluded field.

When the civil servants suppressed the unfinished property, they found a 60,000 -£ kitchen and generous furniture, which said that the secret officer who arrested him could not “meet the average person.”

Andrews JR confessed to two accusations at the beginning of 2024 – one cocaine and heroin and the second to supply these drugs – the second.

However, it took almost two years to be convicted due to a number of linked cases.

At the beginning of this month, Andrews JR was sentenced to 14 years and eight months in prison by a judge at Newport Crown Court, half of which will be served in prison and the other half.

Samuel Takahashi, who was defined as a “important member of the Andrews JR’s organized crime group, was sentenced to eight years in prison.

The 34 -year -old of Newport was caught in police cameras in “The Treating” during the nine -month surveillance with Andrews JR and a nine -month surveillance.

Judge Carl Harrison told Andrews JR that the drug “fueled the misery” and should be ashamed to “involve his mother in” crime occupation “. At a hearing of this year, a suspended penalty was given to pay one of his son’s couriers.

After watching Andrews JR, he described one of the police suppliers in the north -west of England.

Nathan Jones from Bolton in Greater Manchester was sentenced to 18 years in prison after selling cocaine worth £ 1 million to the 32 -year -old Andrews JR’s gang.

Jones paid £ 2,000 for half a million pounds of cocaine, from Bolton to Raily Mehrban, from Manchester to Newport. The 32 -year -old boy was sentenced to 10 years and nine months in prison.

“I hope this is not a place in our communities and the results will be a strong message to everyone,” Det Ch Spt Tuck Tuck.