Related Articles
A British gangster rapper and two other people were sentenced to prison for operating a sizable heroin and cocaine distribution network.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!
The rapper “Champaz,” whose actual name is Rayal Eastwood, set up significant drug deals across Birmingham and London via the encrypted EncroChat network before investing the proceeds in flash motors.
On social media, the 38-year-old presented himself as a rapper, performer, and producer who writes “some of the most contentious lyrics in dancehall history.” In actuality, however, he was operating a sizable drug distribution business with Dakarai Thomas, 37, and Zadengel Raphael, 41.
The trio, according to Mail Online, believed that using phone texting would allow them to have covert chats that authorities couldn’t monitor. However, law enforcement organizations in Europe had created a method to hack EncroChat, and West Midlands Police received the information.
Detectives discovered Eastwood and Thomas talking about transporting significant amounts of heroin and cocaine while using the aliases “Moralracer” and “Regentcliff
They arranged to supply other EncroChat members in London and the South East with medicines worth between £37,000 and £40,000 in the messages.
On July 15 of last year, Eastwood was taken into custody at his residence in Handsworth, Birmingham’s Oxhill Road.
Along with his Audi A5 Quattro and a BMW X6, police recovered £53,950 in cash.
Additionally, police found pictures of Raphael posing in front of BBC Radio 1Xtra studios on his phone, as well as evidence linking Raphael to the narcotics scheme.
On October 6, Raphael was taken into custody at his Colchester, Essex, residence.
In addition to bank papers documenting the purchase of a boat and other significant financial movements, police found £6,000 in cash
Thomas was taken into custody on November 4 at his residence in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands’ Gannahs Farm Close. He attempted to destroy his phones as police forcibly entered his home, but they were found and identified as belonging to ‘Regentcliff’.
The police also took a gold Rolex watch worth £14,000.
All three later admitted conspiring to distribute drugs between December 2017 and July 2020, and they were each given a total sentence of 32 years in prison today.
At Birmingham Crown Court, Thomas received a sentence of six years and nine months in prison, Raphael received a 10-year sentence, and Eastwood received a 16-year sentence.
‘These were extremely big actors pushing vast quantities of Class A narcotics into our communities and inflicting tremendous harm and misery,’ said Detective Constable Daniel Wilson of the West Midlands Police.
They believed their drug peddling was exempt from police attention, but they have learned to their cost that this was not the case, and they have rightfully received lengthy prison sentences.
Through the Proceeds of Crime Act, “We have seized large sums of money and property and will be attempting to permanently deprive the perpetrators of those assets.”
