A London crack dealer already in jail for helping operate a drugs network in the Potteries has been caught running three county lines in Norfolk.

Zayan Charles, 25, was found with three mobile handsets and dozens of cling-film wrapped drug wraps when he was arrested in Great Yarmouth.

Norwich Crown Court was told the phones were identified as being linked to the so-called ‘James’, ‘Tommy’ and ‘A1’ county lines. 

Crack and heroin worth an estimated £6,000 to £7,260 were sold during period Zayan Charles ran phonesCrack and heroin worth an estimated £6,000 to £7,260 were sold during period Zayan Charles ran phones (Image: Getty Images)

Messages discussing drug deals exchanged on the numbers included the contact details of at least 212 customers.

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Chris Youell, prosecuting, said it was estimated during the time he was holding the phones almost 200g of crack and street heroin had been sold to users. 

An estimated street value of this amount was between £6,000 and £7,260.

Charles was jailed for two years and six months at Norwich Crown CourtCharles was jailed for two years and six months at Norwich Crown Court (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)

Charles, of Glenwood Road in Tottenham, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiring to supply class A drugs.

The court was told undercover police had conducted surveillance on a property in the seaside town on March 25 due to suspicious activity.

He had been arrested with the burner phones, drugs wrapped ready for street deals and £620 in cash after officers saw numerous people coming and going, including known drug users. 

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Appearing via video link from prison where he is already serving a sentence for a drugs conspiracy in Staffordshire he was jailed for two years and six months. 

He was also previously sentenced to custody in the youth offenders institution for drug dealing and possession of a knife in 2018. 

He operated burner phones linked to the so-called ‘James’, ‘Tommy’ and ‘A1’ county linesHe operated burner phones linked to the so-called ‘James’, ‘Tommy’ and ‘A1’ county lines (Image: PA)

John Morgans, mitigating, said his difficult upbringing had “led him into this subculture and criminality”. 

“He has been addicted to drugs so he knows full well the misery of that. He doesn’t seek to make any excuses from that, he simply wishes to apologise,” he added. 

“He knows that if he gets involved in supply again it will mean a minimum seven year sentence.” 

Sentencing him, Recorder Peter Clark told him: “You don’t need a lecture, you understand the scourge of drugs on people. To your credit you recognise you need help.”