Custodial terms for Thanet drug dealers who used vulnerable person’s property

A pair of drug dealers who made use of a property belonging to a vulnerable person from Thanet have been given custodial sentences.

Deeq Mohammed, 20, and Patrick George, 29, admitted to offences relating to the supply of class A substances in Ramsgate between June and July 2025.

Investigation

On 14 July 2025, patrols in the Hardres Street area of the town observed suspicious behaviour that appeared to relate to a drugs deal. Mohammed was seen to enter a property nearby.

Officers attended the address, which Mohammed was seen to leave by the back door and where George was waiting.

Both men were detained for a search. Packages of heroin and crack cocaine, and a clip seal bag containing multiple deals, were seized from George. A quantity of cash and a mobile phone were recovered from Mohammed.

The address where the two were detained – and where a person with several vulnerabilities was found to be living - was also searched. Officers seized items connected to dealing drugs and another mobile phone, for which George had the PIN.

Mohammed, of Westvale Mews in Acton, London, and George, of no fixed address, were arrested and taken into custody.

Enquiries into the recovered mobile phones established that the men were involved in a county lines drugs operation. They were charged the following day.

Sentenced

After pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin and crack cocaine, George was jailed for two years and eight months on Thursday 9 October at Canterbury Crown Court.

At the same hearing, Mohammed, who had pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine, was ordered to be detained for four years and eight months in a young offenders’ institution.

Detective Sergeant Rachel Seymour said: 'Drugs misuse brings nothing but misery to communities and particularly to those who are vulnerable to exploitation. The dealers are the root of the problem, and we will continue to stamp out their illegal activity by taking drugs off the street, disrupting the supply lines and ensuring criminals such as George and Mohammed are made to face the consequences of their actions.'