Moment Albanian seller with Scarface poster is arrested as gang jailed

On Nov 19, 2023

Published: 11:17, 19 November 2023 | Updated: 11:20, 19 November 2023

This is the second an Albanian County Lines medicine gang who idolised Al Pacino’s Scarface is taken down in a collection of coordinated raids throughout the capital.

Police started investigating the organised crime group (OCG) after an alert police group assist officer seen suspicious exercise in a quiet market city 120 miles north.

The gang led by brothers Edmund and Edward Haziri ran an ‘Eddie line’ which pumped £1.1m of cocaine into cities throughout Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire, promoting the Class A drug wrapped in lottery ticket stubs.

They had been caught after a year-long police operation sparked by a PCSO in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, who had noticed the motive force of a car performing suspiciously.

The automotive was suspected to be linked to drug dealing within the space and was then linked to different automobiles, too, which led officers to a middle-man in Leicester, Gazmend Hoxha, and the remainder of the gang, together with the Haziri brothers Edmund, 36, and Edward, 34, in London.

The ten members of the gang who were snared in a series of simultaneous raids across London and Leicester

The ten members of the gang who had been snared in a collection of simultaneous raids throughout London and Leicester

Derbyshire Police has released footage of the raids it carried out as it closed in on the county lines gang responsible for pumping £1.1million of cocaine into towns

Derbyshire Police has launched footage of the raids it carried out because it closed in on the county strains gang chargeable for pumping £1.1million of cocaine into cities

Members of the gang were led out of their homes following the early morning raids

Members of the gang had been led out of their properties following the early morning raids

One gang member had a poster of Al Pacino in his role as Tony Montana in 1980s drug gang film Scarface on his wall

One gang member had a poster of Al Pacino in his position as Tony Montana in Eighties drug gang movie Scarface on his wall

Derbyshire Police staged simultaneous raids at a number of locations, with assistance from Leicestershire Police and the Metropolitan Police, in March 2022

Derbyshire Police staged simultaneous raids at numerous areas, with help from Leicestershire Police and the Metropolitan Police, in March 2022

Derbyshire Police stated Hoxha would drive from his residence in Leicester all the way down to London, to drop off the money earned via the dealing and convey again the following batch of cocaine.

The extent of the community’s actions solely turned evident after a sniffer canine discovered discovered an iPhone which had been tossed out of a window right into a neighbouring backyard throughout a raid on gang member Alban Krasniqi’s property in Blackheath Hill, south London.

Bodycam footage exhibits police looking out the flat which had an enormous poster of Al Pacino’s Tony Montana character from Scarface, emblazoned on the wall.

The ‘Scarface gang

Edmund Haziri, 36, of no mounted handle – jailed for 15 years
Edward Haziri, 34, of Lewisham, London – jailed for 15-and-a-half years
Gazmend Hoxha, 47, of Leicester – jailed for 11 years
Alban Krasniqi, 34, of Blackheath Hill, London – jailed for 9 years
Samuel Stoica, 25, of Wolverhampton – jailed for eight years and three months
Simion Stoica, 22, of Wolverhampton – jailed for three-and-a-half years
Kristi Prifti, 23, of no mounted handle – jailed for 4 years
Joshua Garrigan, 32, of Coalville – jailed for 2 years and eight months
Razvan Manoliu, 27, of Burton-upon-Trent – jailed for 2 years and eight months
Daniel Stavrat, 29, of no mounted handle – as a consequence of be sentenced subsequent month

Bundles of money and a number of cell phones had been additionally seized.

Officers had been assured the discarded handset would show to be the ‘Eddie line’, however had solely a finite variety of makes an attempt to enter the proper passcode. Detectives trawled via their a whole lot of hours of surveillance footage of the gang till they discovered movie of him making a contactless buy in a comfort retailer.

They believed that the iPhone he was holding within the footage was the identical telephone they now had of their possession, and they also watched him enter the code on the CCTV and tapped in what they noticed.

The telephone lit up and revealed reams of proof: drug orders, drop areas, dates, contacts, and way more.

The contents of the telephone – together with different proof gathered throughout the course of the investigation – helped safe fees of conspiracy to provide class A medicine.

The gang had been convicted of conspiring to provide cocaine and had been jailed for a mixed complete of 71 years and 7 months at Derby Crown Court.

A last member of the gang, Daniel Stavrat, 29, can be sentenced subsequent month.

The dramatic police footage exhibits the gang being arrested after 7am raids at addresses throughout London and Leicester in March final yr.

One staff focused a enterprise premises linked to the gang and found an enormous DIY on line casino full with poker and blackjack tables within the basement.

Derby Crown Court heard the gang’s quite a few sellers who would provide as many as 145 customers each day.

In complete, the OCG is believed to have processed 9kg of cocaine, with an estimated road worth of as much as £1.1m.

Detective Inspector Kane Martin, who led the investigation, stated: ‘The Eddie line was chargeable for poisoning our streets with dangerous medicine however the gang merely didn’t care in regards to the injury they left behind.

‘They reaped the rewards of their crimes, residing lavish life in London and elsewhere, whereas the cocaine they pumped into the Midlands destroyed households and relationships.

‘The Haziri brothers and their gang are actually spending a few years behind bars and I hope this sends a really clear message to anybody else concerned in drug dealing: we’ll catch you, put your earlier than the courts, and cease you from spreading distress and dependancy in our communities.’