Littlehampton drug four jailed

FOUR men have each been jailed for 26 months after £20,000 worth of drugs were found at their Littlehampton home.
By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Feb 2010, 11:13 BST
Updated 3rd Feb 2010, 15:31 BST

Dinh Anh Tuan, 34, Ngyuen Tien Duy, 37, Tran Ngoc Dinh, 50, and Dinh Quang Tu, 30, pleaded guilty to growing cannabis, and were sentenced at Chichester Crown Court last week.

Police found 7kg of the drug, as well as cultivating equipment, at the men's Sussex Street flat when it was raided in October.

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DC Dave Midgley, of Arun CID, said: "This shows that crime does not pay. Police have stopped 20,000 of cannabis being sold on the streets of Sussex."

He added that police had seized a number of assets, and that a confiscation order had been made to the court.

"Not only have the defendants received a lengthy prison sentence for harvesting cannabis, they have also lost the proceeds of this crime, and may lose several assets of around 15,000.

"This cash will ultimately be recycled into resourcing further police activity against such operations."

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