Two men from Reading jailed for drug dealing
They were involved in a county drugs line
Two men have been sentenced to prison for drug supply offences in Reading.
Aleksei Mutovkin, aged 20, of Staverton Road, Reading, and Reimone Rose, aged 21, of Court Stanhope Road, Reading, were sentenced at Reading Crown Court to four years and six months and three years and six months respectively, after they both pleaded guilty to multiple offences relating to the supply of class A drugs.
Appearing in court on Friday (6/9), Mutovkin pleaded guilty to a count each of possession with intent to supply heroin, possession with intent to supply cocaine, being concerned in the supply of heroin, being concerned in the supply of cocaine and acquiring criminal property.
At the same hearing, Rose pleaded guilty to the same offences.
As well as the custodial sentence, an order was made for the forfeiture and destruction of drugs and phones and forfeiture of more than £3,600 in cash, clothing and a Sur Ron electric bike.
'Frank'
The investigation related to offences being run by a county drugs line, known as ‘Frank’ in Reading between 1 February 2023 and 12 October 2023.
Two drugs warrants were simultaneously executed in Stanhope Road and Staverton Road in Reading in the early hours of 12 October 2023.
At Stanhope Road, an iPhone 15 and Nokia were recovered, along with two sets of digital scales with traces of cocaine and cannabis, ten wraps of crack cocaine and two wraps of heroin, along with a further five grams of coacine.
A small amount of cash was also located in a safe.
Rose was later arrested and three phones were seen to be thrown from a window.
Messages were found on a Nokia phone relating to the supply of cocaine, along with a further £40 and the Sur Ron electric bike.
In the second warrant, executed in Staverton Road, Mutovkin was arrested and seal bags containing two bags of white wraps, totaling 76 wraps of crack cocaine along with another seal bag containing 11 further wraps of crack cocaine were seized.
A Nokia phone was also seized and was identified as a phone used in the county lines enterprise.
More than £1,300 in cash was also seized, along with a white iPhone, which was also identified as a county lines phone.
A number of items of clothing were also seized.
Target
Investigating officer PC Thomas Kennedy, based at Reading police station, said:
“We will continue to proactively target, pursue and prosecute offenders and our activity will be both visible and covert.
“We will never tolerate drug dealing in our communities, which often harm the most vulnerable people in our societies.
“The information provided by the public around drug supply offences in Reading plays a vital role in developing intelligence into a proactive investigation.
“I would urge anybody who has information to report it to Thames Valley Police by calling 101, or making report online via our website.”