Gentjan Kaloti and William Hunter both pleaded guilty to drug offences and were sentenced at a hearing at Newcastle Crown Court on Friday 20 October.
Kaloti, 44, of Brettanby Road in Felling, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for conspiring to supply cannabis while Hunter, 52, of Westgate Road, Newcastle, was sentenced to eight years and one month for conspiring to supply class A drugs.The men were initially arrested as part of a specialist operation by Northumbria Police which saw law enforcement infiltrate encrypted devices to uncover evidence of large-scale drug supply across the North East.
“We know that illegal drugs can harm people in a number of different ways, and the groups who sell them can bring violence, antisocial behaviour, and other types of criminality into our neighbourhoods which is why we are determined to put an end to is.
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