A gang responsible for peddling drugs including a ‘super heroin’ across the streets of Nottinghamshire have been jailed for almost 90 years combined.
A painstaking investigation spanning two years has seen the key players in this drug operation finally sentenced for their crimes.
Two of these players, Shaun Lau and Daniel Yeboah, were already serving time for drugs trafficking and attempted to run their operations from their prison cells through an illegally obtained mobile phone device.
Their motive, pure greed, as they attempted to flood the streets of the city and county with drugs including ‘a super heroin’ mixed with the highly dangerous substance, fentanyl, the results of which can be fatal.
The pair were in close contact with Sherwood resident, Hayley Price, aged 38, who would ensure the drugs were collected and distributed.
She even brought her own daughter and mother into the operation, who both knowingly participated in the enterprise.
Her mum, Angela Price, aged 61, of Greythorn Drive, West Bridgford, being paid £250 for receiving half a kilo of cocaine hidden in biscuits, which was intercepted by Border Force officers at Gatwick Airport.
But their operation literally came crashing to the ground in August 2023, when a drone packed full of drugs collided into a tree outside HMP Parc in South Wales.
It’s destination – inmate Shaun Lau, who was planning to distribute the drugs amongst his fellow prisoners.
Drone controller Hayley Price, assisted by her daughter Kaci-leigh Stones, aged 20, had even returned with a torch to try and locate the crashed drone.
After arousing the suspicions of prison officers, they were stopped by police shortly afterwards where they found excessive amounts of cling-filmed cannabis, weighing more than 1.1 kilograms, mobile phones, SIM cards and drone parts in their car.
A search of Price’s home in Costock Avenue in Sherwood, found traces of cocaine, cannabis, MDMA and heroin as well as deal bags and scales.
Officers then worked tirelessly on the mobile phone devices they seized to understand the full scale of the operation.
What they uncovered was a large-scale Class A and B drugs operation, including the sale of a ‘super heroin’ mixed with fentanyl.
One of the key players identified was Daniel Yeboah, aged 43, from Beacon Hill Rise in St Ann’s.
Yeboah, a prolific drug dealer, was found to be one of the wholesale suppliers of Class A drugs to the group and behind various importations of drugs into the UK, including the importation and supply of fentanyl.
The investigation found that Price sourced cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and cannabis from Yeboah and then sold it amongst her criminal group on behalf of her boss, Shaun Lau to local drug dealers.
Yeboah spoke to and directed Hayley Price where drugs were to be collected from, using an illegally held phone in prison at HMP Buckley Hall.
Both Lau and Yeboah continued the operation on their prison release.
Lau, aged 37, of Burmese Road, Pinxton, had spent the best part of 20 years serving long prison sentences for drug dealing.
But he had a complete disregard for the justice system and showed no attempt of rehabilitation.
On his release in December 2023, he continued to operate a successful drugs business with the help of Shiero Marquis aged 36, of Oxclose Lane in Arnold.
This included the set-up and management of a drugs line selling crack cocaine and heroin and the supply of bulk quantities of cocaine and cannabis.
The court heard how Marquis was Lau’s right-hand man and when arrested in March 2025, his car was found to contain nearly six kilograms of cannabis.
The drugs operation was estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Hayley Price boasting over messages she had received £29,000 in a single month from Lau while he was in prison for the purpose of purchasing another kilogram of cocaine.
Other key players included Lieran Dawes, aged 30, of Fraser Road, Carlton, whose role was to facilitate drug deals arranged by Yeboah from his prison cell.
Dawes was Yeboah’s man on the outside, responsible for storing bulk quantities of heroin and cocaine, fentanyl and other dangerous class B synthetic substances and collect cash for the purchased drugs.
Raheeb Ibrahim, aged 29, of Redhill Lodge Drive, Redhill, and Mohammed Waheed, aged 36, of Kentwood Road, Sneinton, also played a significant role.
They operated Lau’s drug line, supplying heroin and crack cocaine to customers and lower-level dealers.
Lau, Marquis, Ibrahim and Waheed made regular trips to Bingham where one of the stash houses was located, run by Millee Munro, aged 49, of Belvoir Vale Grove.
Munro was not only involved in the storing of Class A and B drugs but also transporting them to different locations on the guidance of Lau.
Cannabis dealer Nick Jones, aged 39, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham, purchased his cannabis from Lau’s group.
He was caught with a quarter kilo of cannabis after officers witnessed him meet Lau and attend the home of Munroe for a short period of time.
At Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday 4 March, the group were sentenced to nearly 90 years combined behind bars.
Daniel Yeboah
Charged with:
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class A
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class B
– Being concerned in the supply of a controlled drug of Class A (with others not in this conspiracy)
– Being concerned in the supply of a controlled drug of Class B (with others not in this conspiracy)
– Importation of a Class A controlled drug
– Importation of a Class B controlled drug
– Possession of an electronic communication device inside prison
Sentenced to 20 years in custody
Hayley Price
Charged with:
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class A
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class B
– Conspiracy to convey a list A article into prison
– Conspiracy to convey a list A article into prison
Sentenced to 10 years in custody
Angela Price
Charged with:
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class A
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class B
Sentenced to 3 years 6 months
Lieran Dawes
Charged with:
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class A
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class B
– Being concerned in the supply of a controlled drug of Class A
– Being concerned in the supply of a controlled drug of Class B
Sentenced to 8 years 6 months in custody
Shaun Lau
Charged with:
– Breach of a Serious Crime Prevention Order
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class A
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class B
– Conspiracy to convey a list A article into prison
– Conspiracy to convey a list A article into prison
– Possession of an electronic communication device inside prison
Sentenced to 20 years in custody
Raheeb Ibrahim
Charged with:
– Conspire to supply a Class A drug
Sentenced to 3 years
Mohammed Waheed
Charged with:
– Conspire to supply a Class A drug
Sentenced to 5 years 8months
Shiero Marquis
Charged with:
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class A
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class B
Sentenced to 11 years in custody
Millee Munroe
Charged with
– Conspire to supply a Class A drug
– Conspire to Supply a Class B drug
Sentenced to 4 years in custody
Kaci Stones
Charged with:
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class A
– Conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of Class B
– Conspiracy to convey a list A article into prison
– Conspiracy to convey a list A article into prison
Sentenced to 15 months suspended 2 years
Nick Jones
Charged with:
– Conspiracy to supply a class B drug
Sentenced to 3 years
