Two more sentenced as part of Slough Op Falcon
A Slough man and a woman were sentenced for drugs offences in two separate cases at Reading Crown Court last week. A total of four people have been sentenced in May as a result of investigations carried out under Operation Falcon.
On 18 May, Leona Kelly Cespedes, 27, of Pendeen Court, Tamarisk Way, Cippenham, Slough was sentenced to two years in prison for the attempted supply of heroin.
The charge relates to an incident on 9 August 2006, when a letter arrived at HMP Bullingdon addressed to a prisoner, who was Cespedes’ boyfriend. Staff became suspicious of the letter and opened it. The envelope was found to contain two letters and a hand-rolled cigarette, as well as a package containing 156 milligrams of heroin.
One of the letters was signed by Cespedes next to the remark “Love you babes, smoke well.”
Officers executed a search warrant at Cespedes’ Slough home address, where they seized drugs paraphernalia evidencing Class A drug use, and she was subsequently arrested.
In a separate incident on 25 May, Mahboob Hussain, 30, of Beechwood Road, Slough, was sentenced to three years for supplying heroin and crack cocaine, and being in possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply.
The charges relate to an incident on 11 January 2007. At about 7.15pm, plain-clothes officers were on patrol in an unmarked vehicle when they spotted a green Nissan Primera in Rochfords Gardens, Slough, with Hussain in the driver’s seat.
The officers searched Hussain and found £584 in cash in the pockets of his jacket. They also noticed he had a large lump inside his cheek. Hussain took items from his mouth and threw them away, but the officers quickly located wraps of Class A drugs on the ground nearby. The drugs were later tested and identified as 17 deals of heroin and three deals of crack cocaine.
PC Matt Lugg of the Berkshire East proactive team said: “These sentences send a strong and clear message to the public that drug dealing will not be tolerated. We know that there is still a lot of work to be done, but with the public’s continued help.”
Thames Valley Police ~ Slough