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Oct 2021
Last Updated: 25/10/2021
Guilty plea after £140,000 of cannabis seized in Boroughbridge
Police seized 14 kilos of cannabis worth £140,000 after stopping a vehicle on the A1(M) at Boroughbridge. Silvio Kondi, 30, and Flamur Saliasi, 45, today pleaded guilty to possessing a Class B drug with intent to supply.
Police released this picture of the cannabis seized on the A1(M) near Boroughbridge.
Two men who were stopped on the A1(M) at Boroughbridge have admitted their part in a major cannabis-supply operation.
Police seized 14 kilos of cannabis worth £140,000 when they pulled over Silvio Kondi, 30, and Flamur Saliasi, 45, on September 30.
They were arrested and charged with possessing a Class B drug with intent to supply.
Today, Kondi, of Tong Road, Farnley, near Leeds, and Saliasi, of no fixed address, appeared at York Crown Court where they pleaded guilty to the offence.
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Prosecutor Rachel Landing said the drugs had an estimated street value of £140,000.
She said that because of the sheer amount of the drugs seized, it had to be assumed that the two men had close ties to the “original source” of the supply chain.
Robert Mochrie, for Kondi, contested this allegation on behalf of his client, whom he said was merely a courier for the drug enterprise.
Judge Sean Morris, the Recorder of York, adjourned sentence for the defendants’ bases of plea to be reviewed in terms of their respective roles within the drug operation. They will be sentenced on November 16.
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