Armir Metaj, the 30-year-old roadman from Middlesbrough, just got done for it big time. The feds swooped on a county lines network he was running out of Yorkshire, raking in over £170,000 in four months 💰. Metaj and his crew were locked up after Grimsby Crown Court heard how they used encrypted apps, false insurance, and multiple stash houses to keep the weed flowing.
Giles Grant, prosecuting, laid it all out: 23,000 messages about deals, cars with fake names, and a bread bin full of cash. Eight raids across Middlesbrough and Yorkshire netted £129k in criminal loot and over £50k worth of cannabis 🌿.
Judge Woolfall slammed the gavel: Metaj got five years and four months, Endri Arifaj 20 months, Gazmir Hameti 19 months, and Patryk Gilwanowski 30 months. Manuela Metaj, his wife, walked with a suspended sentence and community service 🔗.