A DRUG dealer who operated across Wokingham, Bracknell and beyond has been jailed as part of a huge cross-county police operation.
Kieran Byran-Bartlett, 21, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to supply cocaine and one count of conspiracy to supply heroin at Reading Crown Court on Friday, October 13. He was sentenced on the same day to four years in prison.
Byran-Bartlett was charged following a large-scale police investigation, called Operation Sansa, which found a large conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine in Bracknell between May 2015 and July 2016.
More than twenty warrants were executed in July 2016 in Bracknell, Wokingham, Ascot, Reading, Croydon, London and Hove, which resulted in more than 50 arrests, and 28 people being sentenced.
Byran-Bartlett is the final man to be sentenced in connection with Operation Sansa, having been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police during the Notting Hill Carnival on August 28.
Senior investigating officer, Detective Inspector Rachael Wheatman of Thames Valley Police’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit, said: “This is another great result as part of Operation Sansa.
“Byran-Bartlett thought he could evade police officers but his conviction shows that if you plan on carrying out serious crimes such as conspiring to supply drugs you will be caught and put before the courts.
“We are committed to eradicating the blight of high level drug dealers moving narcotics across “county lines” and into the Thames Valley and this is one of the focuses of our campaign Stronghold which aims to work in partnership to tackle serious and organised crime.
“We would ask anyone in the community to keep reporting those who deal drugs as this enables us to build up information and then bring offenders such as Byran-Bartlett to justice.”
