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Article: Jamaican drug lord jailed for five years
- Article from:
- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- April 20, 2007
- Author:
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THE man behind a lucrative crack cocaine business has been jailed
for five years - a sentence described by police as long overdue.Sixty-
four-year-old Jamaican national Reginald Johnson - known as Shaggy -
had been a drugs squad target for at least seven years.Two of
Johnson's previous homes in Middlesbrough had been closed down under
crackhouse laws, and he had been warned to stop dealing or be jailed.
But Johnson carried on supplying the highly-addictive drug in the
town.Johnson's girlfriend, Leanne McCaffery, 33, was jailed for four
years for her part in what a judge described as "the family
business".A third person, West Indian university student Rhaul Warren
was jailed for three years ...
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