Article: Jamaican drug lord jailed for five years

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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