Chesterfield drug dealer jailed over supply conspiracy with cocaine kingpin

Street dealer Adrian Mohammed, 34, worked alongside a Derbyshire drug kingpin who headed up a two-year “retail enterprise” supplying recreational users.

Derby Crown Court heard Mohammed received wholesale cocaine from Thomas Carlisle – the Shirebrook-based head of a drug supply conspiracy.

Prosecutor Jonathan Cox described how when Carlisle, 28, was “struggling to supply his customers he would turn to Mohammed for their habits to be satisfied”.

Mr Cox said Mohammed, a slaughterhouse meat inspector supplied a customer base “stretching from Chesterfield to Bolsover”.

The court heard Mohammed would buy “20 deals” every Friday from Carlisle to sell, which reflected “the scale” of the Chesterfield man’s operation, said Judge Nirmal Shant QC.

She added: “You had a significant role and it was your own operation – you were street dealing and obtaining wholesale quantities.”

However the court heard the operation’s chief was Carlisle, of Church Drive, – who used girlfriend Georgia Vincent’s bank account to receive payment from customers.

The prosecutor said Carlisle, along with other defendants still awaiting sentence, were responsible for the supply of “somewhere in the region” of three kilos of cocaine between 2018 and 2020.

He described how over £7,000 in cash was found during a search of Carlisle’s home.

Mr Cox said Carlisle’s “very young” girlfriend Vincent – now aged 23 – was “drawn towards” the lifestyle drug dealing could offer and became “willingly” involved.

He told how she funnelled payments through her own bank account – often made with the reference “cocaine” while she “actively” sent Carlisle customers.

Altogether, nearly £25,000 was paid into Vincent’s account between 2018-19, which Mr Cox said gave the 23-year-old who had no previous convictions “a significant role”.

The judge said she was a “very young lady” at the time.

She said: “It’s fair to say you had a limited involvement for a year and you cannot have had full awareness of the scale of the enterprise.

"You formed a relationship with Thomas Carlisle at a time when you had perhaps not had any other meaningful relationship.”

However she added: “You were taking money and were selling directly to people on the street on behalf of Thomas Carlisle.”

The court heard kingpin Carlisle was supplied by Justin Woodham, 37, – one of three suppliers who is thought to have provided at least one kilogram of the drug for resale.

Judge Shant told him: “You have been organising and selling on a commercial scale and were a substantial link in the chain – that puts you in a leading role.”

Mohammed, 34, of Queensway, Pilsley, admitted supplying a class A drug and conspiring to supply a class A drug. He was jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Vincent, of New Scott Street, Whaley Thorns, admitted conspiring to supply a class A drug and converting criminal property and was jailed for four years.

Woodham, 37, of Blackmires Way Sutton in Ashfield, was found guilty of conspiring to supply a class A drug after a trial. He was jailed for 10 years.

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