Nigel Edwards aka DJ admitted ten charges of supplying drugs

Nigel Edwards, 24, was arrested with two other men after providing an undercover team with heroin and crack cocaine.Edwards, nicknamed DJ, who used a series of runners to help distribute the class A-drugs, had been targeted in Operation Phoenix in which specialist officers were deployed to rid the streets of drugs and other associated crime from May 2006 to November 2007.Prosecutor James Kellam described how one officer, identified only as Frankie, had approached Edwards about buying some dark (heroin). Edwards offered his phone number and indicated he could supply larger quantities. A runner sitting in an adjacent car then supplied him with a wrap for £10.The city crown court heard of subsequent deals which ended after Frankie told him he wanted to buy a larger amount.Shortly after the transaction in Shirley, officers stopped the car in which he was in and he was arrested with the driver and another passenger. They had £2,000 of heroin between them.Edwards, 24, of Oxford Avenue, Southampton, admitted ten charges of supplying drugs. The court heard he had 28 previous convictions with five for drugs and in 2004 had been jailed for four years in Portsmouth for possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply.
The other vehicle occupants, Ryan Beckford, 26, from London, and Gary Squire, 25, of Kent Street, Northam, both admitted possessing heroin with intent to supply. Beckford was jailed for three and a half years, and Squire received three years.
Mr Kellam described how Frankie approached a drug dealer called A J in St Mary Street and asked if he had any heroin and was directed to the YMCA. There, he met Andrew Wooff who took him to a nearby subway where he bought two wraps for £20.
Wooff, 47, of Derby Road, Southampton, admitted supplying and being concerned in the supply of heroin and received three and a half years.In another Operation Phoenix case, Joseph Adams, 32, of Darwin Road, admitted five charges involving the supply of heroin and crack and was jailed for four and a half years. He was said to have committed 85 previous offences dating back to 1992.

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Southampton Six have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply cocaine and money laundering offences.

More than 50 police officers were involved in the operation which saw six people arrested.raids have been carried out in Southampton today, disrupting a major cocaine network in the city.The raids follow a lengthy investigation into a major cocaine distribution syndicate in the city.
At around 7am today, detectives from the Serious and Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), assisted by officers from the Southampton OCU Priority Crime Team, executed three warrants in the Southampton area, and a further warrant in the Tooting area of London.Three men and a woman were arrested in Southampton, one man was arrested in London, and a fifth man has been produced from prison in Oxfordshire.
All six have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply cocaine and money laundering offences.They have been taken into custody at police stations in Hampshire where they will be interviewed throughout the day.
Following the execution of warrants, a significant amount of what is believed to be Class A drugs were recovered, along with cash and documentation.
Today's operation marks the first arrest phase of an ongoing investigation into a major criminal conspiracy by officers from the Western Serious and Organised Crime Unit, based in Southampton.Utilising powers available under the Proceeds of Crime Act, police have also obtained restraint orders on several houses and vehicles, which are believed to have been purchased through the proceeds of the criminality at the centre of this investigation.Detective Sergeant Jason Attwell said: "Effectively we are not only going after those who supply drugs by dismantling the network, but we are also intent on striking at the heart of their criminality, and stripping their assets away from them."

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