Ealing Woman Member of All-female Drug Courier Gang
Nayara Robeiro jailed for four and a half years
Nayaro Robeiro was paid £220 a day to deliver drugs
A 33-year-old woman from Ealing has been jailed for being a courier for a drugs gang which used female moped rivers to deliver across London.
Nayara Robeiro of Boileau Road was sentenced to four and a half years along with four other Brazilian nationals at Southwark Crown Court on 14 October having pleaded guilty to supplying Class A drugs.
The gang wore courier uniforms and used identical pink backpacks to make their deliveries each with a ‘team’ number written on and a different coloured wallet inside containing the driver’s name. The couriers including Robeiro could be carrying up to £10,000 worth of drugs at any one time for which they received up to £220 per day.
The others sentenced were Tiago Thomaz De-Lima, 31, of Liberty Court, W10 received 18 years, Vanessa Ananias, 29, of St Marys Road, NW10 who received six years, Andressa Santos, 25, of Marcia Road SE1, received four and a half years as did Nayene Fernandez-Silva, 25, of St Marys Road.
Larissy Nascimento, another member of the gang, is due to be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, 19 November.
De-Lima, the gang leader, used the encrypted chat service Encrochat to facilitate wholesale purchases involving multiple kilos of Class A drugs including cocaine, MDMA and crystal meth. He had been telling other users that he can "sell anything I touch” and shared price lists for drugs and pictures of the goods on offer.
The group had a clear operating structure, with De-Lima acting as supplier by buying the drugs in bulk and Santos, Robeiro, Ananias, and Fernandez-Silva acting as distributors. Nascimento acted partly as a bookkeeper, documenting transactions and providing breakdowns of earnings for two of the ‘Teams’.
When all six suspects were arrested on 22 February at an address in Cromwell Road, SW7, officers found tables inside the address covered in multiple packages of a wide variety of controlled drugs on display. The street-deal amounts of drugs were lined up and clearly marked for distribution.
Police seized 133 drug exhibits from the address on Cromwell Road, which was being used by the gang as a distribution centre. Forensic enquiries conducted on the substances seized confirmed them as MDMA, Ketamine, Cocaine and Chloromethcathinone (known as 4-CMC) as well as other controlled and prescription substances. The group had recently moved the massive stash from another property in Pembridge Road, W11.
A selection of the drugs seized at the property on Cromwell Road
Police also raided De-Lima’s home in Kensington and Chelsea as well as a storage unit in Alperton and seized a commercial pill press, a cash counter, and large boxes of packaging including ziplock bags.
Across the three locations police seized a total of 4kg of cocaine, 8kg of MDMA, 7kg of Methamphetamine, 3kg of Amphetamine, 1kg of Chloromethcathione, 18kg of Cannabis. Also seized was 2,493 doses of LSD, multiple bags of Magic Mushrooms, sacks of cannabis sweets, prescriptions drugs, and £54,000 cash. Evidence of their commercial operation came in the form of a cash counter, commercial pill press, and documented supply lists. Using their pricing lists their stock was valued at nearly £2million.
Police also seized a number of phones, many of which was using messaging app Signal which was set to auto-delete messages every 6 hours. Police who examined the phone immediately after seizing it found that it showed a number of messages about Class A drugs which were due for delivery.
DC James Hughes from the Specialist Crime Unit said: “We know that violence we see in London’s streets is inextricably linked to drugs such as the ones that De-Lima and his colleagues were distributing across London. The meticulous investigative work carried out by my team which unravelled this case of highly organised criminals demonstrates the detective capabilities of the Met and shows our commitment to taking these controlled substances off London’s streets.
“We hope that today’s result sends a clear message to those involved in illicit activities that the Met does not welcome this kind of enterprise in London, and our Specialist Crime Units will work determinedly to dismantle organised crime groups such as this.”
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October 20, 2021
