A DRUG dealer, who based himself in Slough and Windsor, has been jailed for 16 years after being found with a stash of up to £2 million worth of class A drugs.

Anxelo Shahu, 25, was imprisoned for conspiring to supply cocaine and heroin after officers observed him picking up a shopping bag from a man in St Albans on February 27. The bag was found to contain six individually wrapped packages that were later confirmed to be 6kg of cocaine.

Shahu, an Albanian national, was arrested by the Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) and when his home in Bridlington Spur, Slough, was searched, officers found a rental agreement for a second property in Knight's Place, Windsor. At the Windsor address they recovered 6kg of heroin from a concealment in the bathroom.

A third man, Besnik Zefi, 32, an Albanian national living in Ilford, had fled the scene in St Albans but was stopped on the M1. He was arrested by Hertfordshire Police officers who found 2kg of cocaine and £1,000 in cash in his vehicle. In total 14kg of drugs were seized to an estimate street value of £1,914,630.

Detective Inspector Steven Miles, from the Organised Crime Partnership, said: “The sentence of the court reflects the serious nature of this offence.

“Together with colleagues from Hertfordshire Police, the Organised Crime Partnership was able to prevent this vast quantity of class A drugs reaching the streets of London.”

Both men pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to conspiring to supply class A drugs on February 29, 2016 But Shahu was sentenced to 16 years in prison at the same court on Tuesday last week while Zefi was jailed for five years and four months.

The OCP brings together officers from the National Crime Agency and the Metropolitan Police Service.