A drug dealer who sold heroin to vulnerable users in Eastbourne has been jailed. Jordan Catt operated the “CJ” telephone line in the town to supply the class A drug between September 2021 and February 2022. The unemployed 27-year-old was arrested at an address in Pevensey Road, Eastbourne on February 10. Officers from Sussex Police, Surrey Police and the Metropolitan Police worked as part of a joint investigation under Operation Orochi and Operation Centurion, with the objective of disrupting “county lines” drug dealing in Sussex. They seized “burner” phones and Catt’s own personal phone in his room when he was arrested, and found evidence from the phones which proved he was the person operating the CJ line. The investigation showed how burner phones had sent bulk marketing messages to potential drug using customers in Eastbourne. Their investigation also revealed how Catt, formerly of Pevensey Road, Eastbourne, had used the burner phones to make personal calls such as to his dentist, to a veterinary surgery, Photo: Sussex Police
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A speeding motorist has been jailed after he was found with drugs stashed in his vehicle. Officers from the Specialist Enforcement Unit were on patrol on the A27 at Worthing when they spotted a blue Proton Savvy travelling at excess speed at about 8.45pm on May 15. When the vehicle was stopped, officers noted a strong smell of cannabis and searched the driver, Marion Tomaszewski. They found he had a small amount of white powder in his wallet which was tested as amphetamine and a lock knife in his trouser pocket. A further search of his vehicle found him in possession of ten wraps of cocaine, wrapped in lottery tickets, seven wraps of amphetamines in an old Strepsils tin, seven bags of cannabis in an old whisky tin, 19 MDMA pills, and a green tin containing five cannabis joints. Officers also seized “burner” mobile phones that Tomaszewski used to make drug deals. Tomaszewski, 58, formerly of Fetherston Road, Lancing, was charged with possessing cocaine, amphetamine, MDMA and cannabis all with intent to supply, Photo: Sussex Police
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A man from Hastings has been sentenced to more than five-and-a-half years in prison following a number of drug raids across East Sussex and London in May. Tonderai Magaya, 23, of Norcross Close, Hastings, was sentenced to 56-months in prison and a further suspended sentence was reactivated for 12-months, which he will serve consecutively at Lewes Crown Court. He also received a forfeiture and destruction order for drugs seized, paraphernalia, and mobile phones and will also pay a victim surcharge of £156. Magaya was arrested on Wednesday, May 4, at his home address, charged with concerned in supply of cocaine and pleaded guilty at Hastings Magistrates Court the following day. This was part of a series of dawn raids at addresses in Eastbourne, Hastings and London. Sussex Police, supported by London's Metropolitan Police and Surrey Police, led the execution of 19 drugs warrants, resulting in 18 arrests on suspicion of involvement in the supply of Class A drugs. Around 5,000 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin wer Photo: Sussex Police
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A Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced over sexual offences against a teenage boy in Horsham in the 1990s, Sussex Police have said. Police said Father Anthony White, 64, now of Cross-In-Hand, Heathfield, was sentenced at Hove Crown Court on Friday, June 10. Police said White had been convicted at Chichester Crown Court on April 1 of two offences of indecent assault and another of a serious sexual offence against a boy in the 1990s, while he was an Assistant Priest at St John’s Church. A police spokesperson said White was sentenced to 10 years and six months for the serious sexual offence, and five years for each offence of indecent assault, to run concurrently. Photo: Sussex Police