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Article: Drug dealer's identity revealed by undercover work.
- Article from:
- Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)
- Article date:
- January 16, 2008
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AN undercover police officer managed to reveal a man who was using drug runners to supply crack cocaine and heroin across Peterborough.
Joel Mativat (20) was sentenced to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to five counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs at Peterborough Crown Court, yesterday.
Mativat, who was born in France, was the latest dealer to appear after being caught in Operation Abolish.
The court heard how an undercover police officer contacted Mativat, who was known as P, by mobile phone to order wraps of crack cocaine or heroin between June 20 and July 5, last year.
Mativat, of Cobden Street, Peterborough, then sent a ...