A county lines drug dealer who recruited people as young as 16 to sell crack and heroin on the streets of Shrewsbury has been jailed for more than five years.
Nleya Lang of Weston Road in Birmingham, ran the"Rocky Line" county line phone number in the town, Shrewsbury Crown Court was told on Wednesday.
He said:"The defendant was the holder of the phone and oversaw the supply of drugs from the West Midlands to the streets of Shrewsbury." He added that following police surveillance, a hire car rented by Lang was seen dropping off a female street dealer in Shrewsbury. The woman was later seen supplying drugs to three people in the town.
Lang pleaded guilty to four charges of supplying Class A drugs and one charge of supplying cannabis at an earlier hearing.
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