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Two men had been jailed on account of work which took express during a painstaking surveillance operation, following a series of gang shootings in Wandsworth in the summer season of 2022.
Detective Chief Inspector Lewis Sanderson talked about: “That is excellent one instance of the work that officers attain each day to take away unhealthy people and weapons from London’s streets.
“Our operation helped to decrease the violence that used to be taking express in the express, and took dedication and tenacity to bring prior to the courts.
“It is satisfying to understand that two people intent on causing injure to our communities, aren’t any longer in a location to operate.
“Now we maintain specialist groups in the Met doing this work three hundred and sixty five days a 365 days. In the occasion you are a drug dealer, or handling weapons, keep in mind that you simply too can no longer be as invisible as you think.”
On 30 June 2022, officers utilized a medicine warrant at the Vauxhall handle of known gang member Dean Vincent.
Completely moments prior to, officers had watched Reyon Vincent, receive out of a mini cab with a series of bags, and creep into the handle in Heyford Avenue.
They watched Reyon return to the minicab with out the luggage, prior to following and stopping the automobile.
Reyon used to be also chanced on to maintain cannabis and 123 grams of heroin concealed in his waist band.
As Reyon used to be detained, officers entered Dean’s handle and within a communal cupboard exterior his entrance door, chanced on 369 grams of heroin inside the same luggage that they suspected had been dropped off a transient time earlier. Realized in the same cupboard, used to be a brilliant brown Primark compile containing clothes. Underneath the top layer of clothes, police chanced on a handgun and a revolver – both of these had been loaded.
Officers also uncovered around £2,000 worth of cannabis, a brilliant hunting knife and zombie knife and deceptive money. Officers searched the express behind the kitchen kickboards with Dean Vincent’s handle, and chanced on thirteen rounds of 9mm ammunition and four tremendous blocks of heroin weighing 399 grams.
On the day, Reyon used to be arrested, charged and initially remanded in custody however Dean used to be no longer at the handle and used to be chanced on by police at an handle in Iver on 11 August 2022. On him, he had his passport and £9,000 in money.
Following a trial at Inner London Crown Courtroom, on Friday 12 January, Dean Vincent used to be chanced on guilty of possession of two firearms and possession with intent to develop heroin and possession of criminal property (money).
Reyon Vincent admitted to being a drug dealer, and in 2017 had been convicted of supplying class A medicine and possession of a knife. He used to be chanced on guilty of possession with intent to develop heroin chanced on at the Heyford Avenue handle on 30 June 2022.
On Thursday 7 March, Dean Vincent – 27 (22.03.96) of Battersea Park Avenue, SW8 used to be jailed for nine and half years (to attend half on licence), whereas Reyon Vincent – 28 (11.11.95) of St Louis Avenue, SE27 used to be jailed for six years (to attend half on licence).
The men are no longer linked.
