TWO MEN from Reading have been jailed for drug offences following a Thames Valley Police investigation.
Aleksei Mutovkin, aged 20 and of Staverton Road, and Reimone Rose, aged 21 and of Court Stanhope Road, Reading, both pleaded guilty to multiple offences relating to the supply of class A drugs.
Both appeared at Reading Crown Court on Friday, September 6, both charged with a count each of possession with intent to supply heroin, possession with intent to supply cocaine, being concerned in the supply of heroin, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, and acquiring criminal property.
As well as the custodial sentence, an order was made for the forfeiture and destruction of drugs and phones, as well as the forfeiture of more than £3,600 in cash, clothing, and a Sur Ron electric bike.
It follows investigation into offences commited by a county dfrugs line group, known as “Frank”, which took place in Reading between February 1 and October 12 last year.
Two sets of digital scales with traces of cocaine and cannabis, ten wraps of crack cocaine and two wraps of heroin, along with a further five grams of coacine, an iPhone 15, and Nokia were recovered from an address in Stanhope Road.
A small amount of cash was also located in a safe.
Rose was later arrested and three phones were seen to be thrown from a window.
Messages were found on a Nokia phone relating to the supply of cocaine, along with a further £40 and the Sur Ron electric bike.
Mutovkin was arrested in a second warrant executed in Staverton Road, where seal bags containing two bags of white wraps (totaling 76 wraps of crack cocaine), along with another seal bag containing 11 further wraps of crack cocaine, were seized.
A Nokia phone was also seized and was identified as a phone used in the county lines operations.
More than £1,300 in cash was also seized, along with a white iPhone, which was also identified as a county lines phone.
Investigating officer PC Thomas Kennedy, based at Reading police station, said: “We will continue to proactively target, pursue and prosecute offenders and our activity will be both visible and covert.
“We will never tolerate drug dealing in our communities, which often harm the most vulnerable people in our societies.
“The information provided by the public around drug supply offences in Reading plays a vital role in developing intelligence into a proactive investigation.
“I would urge anybody who has information to report it to Thames Valley Police by calling 101, or making report online via our website.”
