Three people jailed for county lines operation

Three people involved in a county lines drug operation operation have been jailed.

Kaleb Wyman, Brett Marshall, and Louise Sanders, all pleaded guilty to being involved in the supply of class A drugs at Bristol Crown Court.

Marshall was arrested on 24 October 2024 after police saw him get into a car and leave it a few seconds later, in a suspected drugs deal in Manilla Crescent in Weston-super-Mare.

Officers then searched Marshall's home and found Sanders and Wyman, the latter in possession of suspected drugs, more than £1,000 in cash and a knuckle duster.

The Avon and Somerset Police investigation that followed proved the trio were involved in bringing drugs from the midlands into Somerset.

Wyman, 19 and from Birmingham, was jailed for three years.

Marshall, 43, from Weston-super-Mare, was jailed for two years and Sanders, 45, also from Weston, for 16 months.

PC Tom Highton, said: "Cocaine, heroin and other illegal substances cause an immense amount misery to people, not only drug users but the local communities too.

"The imprisonment of Wyman, Marshall and Sanders hopefully should act as a warning to anyone involved in the supply of illegal drugs that they risk a significant custodial sentence because we and our partners in the criminal justice system are determined to bring such offenders before the courts."

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