Dealers who continued to sell drugs after arrest by Cambridgeshire police are jailed

A couple who dealt drugs across Cambridgeshire are the latest to have been sentenced following the police’s Operation Hypernova.

Michael Ndoro and Mercede Silsbury used hire cars to drive round, sell the drugs and move associated profits.

Officers raided Ndoro’s home in Orbell Avenue, Little Wratting, near Haverhill, in the early hours of September 14 and found a mobile phone linking the pair to class A drug dealing.

They seized more than £12,000 in cash and £9,000 in class A drugs.

At Peterborough Crown Court on June 12, Ndoro, 29, was sentenced to four years and four months in prison after previously pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin, possession of class C drugs, three counts of possession with intent to supply class A and three counts of acquire criminal property.

Silsbury, 26, of North Star Court, King’s Lynn, was sentenced to three years and two months in prison after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin and acquiring criminal property.

Det Con Andy Macdonald, who investigated, said: “This pair were responsible for running a criminal enterprise across Cambridgeshire. Both of their sentences were increased due to them continuing to sell drugs after initially being arrested by police in July last year.

“County lines bring misery to our communities in the form of drug dealing, exploitation and violence.”

Operation Hypernova was carried out with help from the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police and the Eastern Regional Specialist Operation Unit to identify individuals posing the greatest threat to the community.

It dismantled 33 county lines and crack cocaine, heroin and cannabis worth more than £600,000 were seized, along with cash, vehicles, jewellery, clothing and weapons.