County Line Drug Dealer Busted and Locked Up for Over Four Years
A notorious drug dealer running a County Line between London and Hastings has been slammed with a hefty jail sentence. Robert Gregory, 31, from Tower Mill Road, London, was handed 54 months behind bars following a major joint police crackdown.
Police Smash County Line Operation
The bust was the result of a combined effort by Sussex Police’s Project ADDER team and the Met Police’s Operation Orochi. Both teams target the production, supply, and distribution of dangerous drugs.
Sussex Police first caught wind of the County Line running into Hastings in October 2021. For the uninitiated, County Lines are criminal networks using phone lines to push heroin and crack cocaine from big cities into smaller towns and rural areas.
Gregory Caught Red-Handed
- Police traced suspicious bulk messaging linked to the County Line phone number straight to Gregory.
- A search of his home in November 2021 uncovered heroin, crack cocaine evidence, and the actual phone controlling the drug operation.
- On arrest, Gregory was found with heroin and incriminating messages on the seized phone.
- He later admitted guilt to supplying heroin and crack cocaine.
Policing Partnership Pays Off
Detective Sergeant Greg Montier said: “County Lines are responsible for bringing harmful and dangerous drugs into our community. We do a huge amount of work to disrupt this activity and hold those responsible to account.”
By working closely with other agencies and the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Orochi team, we tackle County Lines both at the source in London and at the destination towns like Hastings and Eastbourne.
“Robert Gregory’s County Line disruption was one of four we smashed in November 2021 under Project ADDER. We’re grateful to the Met for this vital partnership.”
This conviction sends a clear message: drug dealers who flood our towns with poison will face justice.
