By Eric King-
A rapper has been jailed for 7 years in a county lines operation. 19 year old Trigga T- real name Daniel Olaloko- admitted supplying heroin and crack cocaine in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The teenager who was a member of the Silwood Nation drill group was also pharmacology student and had previously auditioned for ITV’s X Factor in 2016. His audition for the well know television singing competition was unsuccessful.
Adebayo had raping talent, but abused it by rapping about drugs, money, violence and sex in his videos, instead of concentrating on his studies . He was immediately suspended by the University of Central Lancashire.
His right hand man ,Peter Adebayo, also 19, was handed a seven years sentence at Burnley Crown Court after admitting two charges of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. Olaloko, who studied at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston was arrested in a dawn raid at his halls of residence in April.When police searched his room, they found a sword, knives, four cheap mobile phones, wraps of heroin and crack cocaine and £480 in cash. They also found weighing scales in his room.
There was also a Silwood Nation t-shirt. The teenager made no provision for the possibility of being raided, adopting a narrow vision of how his drug path would indefinitely develop.
Adebayo had passed his A levels to get into University, but wasn’t smart enough to know that drug dealing at halls of residence wasn’t just foolish and contrary to his purpose at University, but it was very risky. Also jailed was 24 year old Joshua Adam from London who pleaded guilty to supplying Class A drugs and received a four and a half years in prison. A 17-year-old from Manchester was sentenced to an 18-month detention and training order.
In a simultaneous raid in April at an address in Manchester, police arrested Adebayo. Searching his room, officers found mobile phones used to sell drugs in Barrow. They also found quantities of drugs alongside weighing scales and mixing agents ready to be processed.
The pair are believed to have made several thousands of pounds before their capture . Through their videos, they were gaining a reputation as up and coming artists who were untouchable in the drugs scene. At least 12 people died of suspected drug overdoses in the town between April and December – which has a population of 67,000 people.
Trigga T Olaloko looks the part in Youtube video.
Prosecutor Jonathan Dickinson said Olaloko and Adebayo were “towards the top end of the conspiracy” to supply people in Barrow with heroin and crack cocaine. They operated as part of a gang known as Nation, which supplied drugs from London, some 300 miles away. Police caught the pair after they arrested a vulnerable 17-year-old girl from London who they found in a flat in Egerton Court in Barrow.
Police officers discovered 53 wraps of ready-to-sell heroin and crack cocaine had been inserted inside her. Jurors heard that Olaloko and Adebayo “had control” over the girl.
Joshua Adam, 24, again from London, also pleaded guilty to supplying Class A drugs and received a four and a half years in prison. A 17-year-old from Manchester was sentenced to an 18-month detention and training order. “These men operated as a sophisticated and relentless organised crime group,” said Detective Chief Inspector Nick Coughlan.
“They targeted vulnerable people to facilitate their illegal activities and they used fear and intimidation to operate their business.
“So during this operation, officers removed not just drugs from being sold on the streets, but a substantial quantity of illegal and dangerous weapons.”
TERRITORIAL
Drug dealers in Barrow, like in most towns, are very territorial. They are quick to challenge rivals who compete for clients in spots where they have established a stronghold. London gangs have affiliated strongly with other gangs from Liverpool, teaming together in some cases, and in other cases, agreeing boundaries of operation