Two drugs gangs have been dismantled as members have been caged after six addresses across south Essex were raided earlier this year.

The gangs - which operated the “Jay and Mus” drug lines - flooded the area with cocaine and cannabis and earned up to £13,000 a week before, in March, seven addresses were raided in Southend, Rochford and Benfleet.

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Police have released pictures of the drugs busts today as six gang members have been jailed for a total of 25 years. 

During the raids, police seized 239 wraps and a lump of cocaine, cannabis plants and 8768 cannabis buds - together worth more than £25,000.

Echo: An officer searches kitchen cupboardsAn officer searches kitchen cupboards (Image: Essex Police)

Designer trainers worth £12,600 were seized as well as a bracelet valued at £37,440, while officers also recovered two knives, a hammer, several phones and unused syringes.

Police found evidence that the gangs offered to pay new drivers £240 a day - the equivalent of £62,400 a year for a five-day week. 

Echo: Drugs worth £25k were found during the raidsDrugs worth £25k were found during the raids (Image: Essex Police)

  • Eren Karagozlu, 31, of Woodlow, Benfleet, was the head of the Jay gang and was jailed for six years and three months.
  • David Cadge, 31, of Carnarvon Place Southend, weighed and cut wrapped drugs, he was jailed for four years and three months.
  • Michelle Dennis, 43, of Coleman Street, Southend, was Karazoglu’s trusted runner and jailed for two years and four months.

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  • Kingsley Dennis, 46, of Jackdaw Close, Shoebury, supplied large amounts of cocaine for both lines, he was jailed for four years and six months.
  • Tyler Mihilll, 25, of Bournemouth Park Road, Southend, headed the Mus gang and was jailed for five years and two months.
  • Bailey Mihill, 23, also admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and was jailed for two years and six months.

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  • Danny Giggs, 37, of Portland Avenue, Southend, was a Jay gang runner and was handed an 18-month sentence suspended for two years.
  • Mus’s top runner Daniel Watkins, 40, of Middle Mead, Rochford, helped deliver cocaine to customers in the evening after returning from work. He was given a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to forfeit £1,214.